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The Anjstals 



OF 



CHEIST OHUKCH PARISH 



OP 



LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, 



FROM 



A. D. 1839 TO A. D. 1899. 



COMPILED B 



ELLEN HARRELL CANTRELL. 



'"If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it, that there 
should be nobility of ascent— a character, in them that bear rule, so fine and high 
and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily 
pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.'" 

— Bishop Henry C. Potter. 



PRESS OF 

Arkansas Democrat Co. 

little rock, 

1900. 

V. 



53735 




iLibnxx y of Concir««e 

SEP 29 1900 

CopyngM entry 
StCt^Nr COPY. 

Uti*vut« to 

OHOtK DIVISION, 

OCT 15 1900 



Copyright, 1900, 
By ELLEN HARRELL CANTRELL. 



^4 1^ 



TO 

MY MOTHER, 

WHO BEING DEAD, YET SPEAKETH. 



PREKACE. 



The burning of the First Episcopal Church in Little 
Rock, together with all the church records, on Sunday, Sep- 
tember 28, 1873, has been felt by the congregation to be an 
ever recurring calamity, as incidents and dates connected with 
its history have faded almost into irreclaimable obscurity. It 
has been the aim of the writer to restore the main facts con- 
nected with the birth and progress of the church by means 
of oral and epistolary tradition, and in this manner, however 
inadequate, to fill the hiatus caused by the missing data, and 
tlien, with the help of the new register, to continue with the 
annals of the church to the present time. 

This has necessarily been a slow process, especially as 
the work has been designed, from the beginning, to occupy 
only such legitimate leisure Imurs as the demands of a large 
family have left unclaimed. ^ 

The profits of the work, if any, will be devoted to the 
missions of the Diocese of Arkansas. 

ELLEN HARRELL (WXTRELL. 

(no Scott street. Little Rock, Ark., Mav IT. 1899. 



CONTENTS. 



PART FIRST. 



Portrait of Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D., Bishop of Arkansas and 
the Southwest, later first Bishop of Louisiana — He makes a visi- 
tation and sends the Rev. William Henry Christopher Yeager 
as Missionary Minister, to organize a parish of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, in Little Rock — Biography of Bishop Polk — 
Photograph of St. John's Church, Ashwood, Tenn., which was 
built by Bishop Leonidas Polk and his brothers. 

Portrait of First Senior Warden, John H. Crease — Biographies of 
Wardens and members of the first Vestry and choir. 

Biographies of some heads of families connected with the first 
Church. 

Portrait of Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D. D., LL. D., first Bishop 
of Tennessee and Provisional Missionary Bishop of Arkansas 
and the Southwest — Biography, with pocket diaries and letters, 
carefully transcribed — The building of the Church — Its consecra- 
tion by Bishop Otey — Appointed Bishop of Arkansas to succeed 
Bishop Freeman in 18.58 — Accepted, but died in 1863. before 
making another visitation. 

Biographies of second and third missionary ministers, Rev. James 
Young, December, 1843 A. D., and Rev. W. T. Saunders. 

Portrait of Rt. Rev. George Washington Freeman, D. D.. second 
Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and the Southwest, with biog- 
raphy. 

Portrait of Rev. Andrew Field Freeman, first Rector of Christ 
Church, with biography — Biographies of ■ Wardens — List of 
Vestrymen and choir members. 

Ordination John Henry Ducachet Wingfield to the Diaconate by 
Bishop Freeman and attending Presbyters. 

Portrait of Rt. Rev. Henry Ducachet Wingfield, D. D., LL. D., first 
Missionary Bishop of Northern California— Autobiography, with 
account of ordination as given in a Little Rock paper, and 
letters. 



viii CONTENTS. 

Portrait of Rev. John Thomas Wheat, D. D., second Rector of Christ 
Church, with biography and poems written at eighty years of 
age — Biographies of Wardens, with list of Vestrymen and choir, 
with letters — Biography of Acting Rector, Rev. Wm. C. Stout. 

Portrait of Rt. Rev. Henry Champlin Lay, D. D., LL. D., third Mis- 
sionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory; translated 
to Easton, Md., as first Bishop, with biography, letters, and ser- 
mon — Portrait of the third Rector of Christ Church, Rev. P. G. 
Robert, with biography — Biographies of Wardens and list of 
Vestrymen and choir members. 

Portrait of Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., LL. D., fourth Mission- 
ary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory, and first Diocesan, 
having served twenty-eight years, in this jurisdiction — Portrait 
of Rev. Thomas Booth Lee, fourth Rector of Christ Church, with 
biography — Biographies of Wardens and list of Vestrymen and 
choir members — The burning of the Church. 

PART SECOND. 

Poem — Photograph of the second church — Portrait of the fifth Rector 
of Christ Church, Rev. Tullius C. Tupper, with biography — Biog- 
raphies of Wardens and list of Vestrymen and choir members — 
Church building in progress — Services held in opera house. Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Supreme Court room, in Statehouse, and later, 
in Christ Church Chapel, cov ring a period of fifteen years. 

Portrait of the sixth Rector of Christ Church, Rev. Wallace Carna- 
han, with extracts from the parish paper, which he edited for 
three years — Christ Church Rectory — Church Described— First 
service in the new Church, with names of organist and members 
of the choir — Biographies of Wardens, with funeral orations on 
Senior Wa den. Judge W. W. Smith, carefully transcribed from 
Supreme Court record — Portrait of first Assistant Rector, Rev. 
JohnE. H. Galbraith, with biography — Brotherhood of St. Andrew. 

Portrait of Rev. John Gass, seventh Rector of Christ Church, with 
biography and sermon; account of memorial services^ trans- 
cribed from Little Rock paper — Biographies of Wardens — A list 
of Vestrymen, and first vested choir — Biography of Rev. James 
Noble, second Assistant Rector of Christ Church. 

Biography of Acting Rector, Rev. C. C. Kramer, of New Iberia. La. 



CONTENTS. ix 

Portrait of Rev. George Gordon Smeade. eighth Rector of Christ 
Church, with biography and parochial report, also report for 
the committee, as chairman, on the State of the Church in 
Arkansas, as given in the Diocesan Journal of 1900 — Biographies 
of Wardens and list of Vestrymen and members of choir. 

Missions of Christ Church — St. Paul's, St. John's, St. Luke's — War- 
dens of Christ Church — Treasurers of Christ Church — Organists 
and singers of Christ Church — Officers of Ladies' Aid Society — 
Officers of the Chancel Society — Officers of Daughters of the 
King — Officers of Christ Church Branch of the Woman's Auxili- 
ary to the Board of Missions — Officers of St. Cecilia's Guild. 

Portrait of Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, D. D., with biog- 
raphy and summary of his work in Arkansas as given in Journal 
of Twenty -eighth Annual Council. 



THE ANNALS OF 

Christ Church Parish, 

LITTLE KOCK, ARKANSAS. 



PART FIRST. 



Little l\ock was a Held for missionaries of the Christian 
religion before it became a military post. The dove, emblem 
of the Holy Spirit, had borne the olive branch with its message 
of peace to the heathen of the trans-Mississippi forests, before 
cannon and other equipments of war had been transported 
to enforce it. 

A. D. 1779-1825. The Koman Catholic missions at 
Arkansas Post and Pine Bluff were organized in 1779. ^Next 
came the disciples of John the Baptist to proclaim the Gospel 
in this wilderness and to organize a mission, in 1824. The 
Christian Church, which was an offshoot of the Baptist, was 
established here in 1825, by the Rev. John T. Johnson, of 
Kentucky, who represented the Society of the ''Disciples of 
Christ." Their church was seated on Scott street, between 
Mulberry and Walnut streets, now Third and Fourth. 

A. D. 1 827. The Presbyterians came next, and, in 
1827, built a wooden church near the corner of ]\rain and 
Cherry (now Second) streets. 



2 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

A. D. 1 830. Tlic Tioinan Catholic priests planted a 
mission here in 1830^ and hnilt a elmrch on the northwest 
corner of Louisiana and C^hestnnt (now Seventh) streets, 
which was afterwards converted into a convent and school 
for girls. 

A. D. 1833-1840. The Methodists came next, and, in 
1833, hnilt a brick clinrch west of Main on (Mierrv, or Second 
street. Seven vears later, in 1840, as the following letters 
will show, the Episcopal C'hnrch was established in Little 
Rock. 

Copy of a letter written bv Bishop Leonidas Polk, first 
Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal C-hurch in Arkansas, to 
Mr. John H. Crease, of Little Rock :* 

(Columbia, Tenn., Jnne 2(5, 1840. 

To Jolin II. Crcdse, Esquire: 

Dear Sir — This will be handed you by my reverend 
brother Wni. II. C. Yeager, of the Episcopal Church, who 
goes to Little Rock, under the appointment of the Church, 
with a view of laboring among you as a minister. Your 
interest in all that appertains to our church in which you 
have been sealed will insure, I am confident, a welcome recep- 
tion to him as its messenger, and all the aid of which you 
are capable of furthering the object of his mission. He is 
kindly commended to your affections and attention. I had 
hoped long since to have been able to write such a letter as 
this to you by the hands of an individual, who goes to break 
to you the bread of life, but although diligent efforts have 
been made to secure the services of a competent person to go 
to you, I have found it impossible to succeed in anywise to 
my wishes. It is vastly easier to make ap])lications for 
laborers than to secure their services. Indeed the time has 
never been, in all the history of our church, when there was 



*By courtesy of the dauarhters of Mr. .T. H. Crease. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 3 

such a demand for ministers' service and when the suj)ply of 
ministers was so scant. The gentleman who goes to you, 
goes, I am sure, with the full purpose of giving himself to the 
work, and I trust that under God, he may be effectively and 
eminently useful. I perceive by the papers that the hand 
of affliction has been heavily laid on you and yours, since I 
saw you, in the removal of both your estiuuible son, who was 
taken from you in the very buddings of his youthful })romise, 
and your son-in-law^ the Kev. Mr. Nelson. The latter 1 had 
hoped might have consented to go to Little Rock, but was 
assured, when in Virginia, that he could not be induced to 
leave Bishop J\leade, between whom and himself I knew there 
was a very tender attachment. In the late address of the 
Bishop to his convention, I see he numbers him, not only as 
a brother by marriage, but also, and much nearer, as one 
whom he much loved in the Gospel. I hope they are both 
at rest, and that their early retirement from the engagements 
and anxieties of life may warn those whom they leave behind 
of the utter uncertainty of all human hopes. God, I trust, 
my dear sir, has not left your familv comfortless, but has 
numifested himself to you in the bringing about of a more 
devout and constant consideration for the things of Eternity. 
I shall, if God will, hope to see vou and your friends 
generally in Little Bock this winter. With my kind regards 
to your family, 

I remain vour friend, 

LEONIDAS BOLK. 

BEY. WrLLIA]\r irENBY CIIBISTOBIIEB YEAGEB. 

A. D. 1839-1843. llcv. WilHam Henry Christopher 
Ycncjcr was the first Missionary Rector of Christ ( "hurch. He 
was ordained Deacon December 21, L'^SO, by Bishop Leonidas 
Bolk. The date of his ordination as Briest is not known, 
but it is inferred that Bishop Bolk ordained him, as he was 
assigned to duty in Little Bock in June, 1840, by Bishop 
Bolk. The coni'rei'ation had no buihlinii in which to 



4 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

worship, l)nt tlie Wardens and otlicr Vestrymen were making 
successfnl efiorts to accumulate funds for the purpose of 
building. The letters appended to this meagre sketch will 
show that efforts were being made to secure help from with- 
out, while the subscription list wdiich the tirst Senior Warden 
kept shows the zeal of Rev. ]\lr. Yeager and his congregation 
to accomplish that object. ]\[r. and ]\lrs. Yeager conducted 
a school, Mrs. Yeager taking the musical department. She 
w^as an accomplished musician and presided at the organ to 
conduct services. The choir was composed of Mr. John H. 
Crease, choir master ; Mr. "William E. Ashley, Mr. Gordon ]^. 
Peay, Mr. John E. Reardon, Mr. D. C. Fulton, Mr. ^J\ D. 
Merrick, ]\lrs. Helen Scott, ]\Iiss Lavinia Reardon, Miss 
Harriet Grafton, Miss Lizzie Shall, and Mrs. Yeager. Mr. 
and Mrs. Yeager had one little daughter, Clara Ophelia, at 
that time. Mr. Yeager resigned his position as Rector in 
1843. It is not known uoav where he removed to. 

On the resignation of Dr. Yeager from the office of 
Rector at Christ Church, the vestry adopted the following 
resolutions: 

Resolved, That in accepting the resignation of the 
Rev. Wm. H. C. Yeager, as Itector of Christ Churcl), w^e 
deeply regret the necessity that constrains a separation ; that 
we tender him, in the name of the congregation, our most 
grateful thanks for the zeal and fidelity with which he has 
labored to build up the Protestant Episcopal Church in this 
city, and has watched over the spiritual interests of the flock 
committed to his care; that he carries wdth him our fervent 
prayers for his prosperity and happiness and continued use- 
fulness in spreading the Gospel of our Lord. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 5 

^opy "Ji ^ letter of Lambert Keardoii to the llev. JJr. 
Wyatt, Baltimore, Md. :^ 

Little Koek, Ark., May IS, 1841. 

Dear arid lievereud Sir — On ordinary occasions I should 
scarcely deem my acquaintance with you sufficient to author- 
ize my addressing yoti, having been but a few years a parish- 
ioner of yours, and during that time 1 was not fortunate 
enough to be very intimate with you and a lapse of years may 
have -passed from your mind a recollection of me; but as the 
object of the present communication is the promotion of the 
Church, it must be my apology for thus obtruding on you. 
Dr. J. P. Xorman, the gentleman who will hand you this, 
I take great pleasure in introducing to you. He is one of the 
few pioneers in this country in the cause of the Church, and 
an active member of the Vestry in this place, where we are 
making an effort to raise the first Episcopal Church in Ar- 
kansas. He visits his friends in the East and goes author- 
ized to ask and receive such aid toward our undertaking as 
our friends and those of the Church may feel willing to give 
us. There are in this place about twenty familieSj^ Episco- 
jialians, who, from their slender means, have raised sufficient 
to purchase ground, put up the Avails and inclose a Church, 
which we propose doing this summer, and the object of our 
solicitations is to obtain something towards finishing the 
inside of the house, and, if possible, to procure an organ. 

I am perfectly aware of the frequent calls on our East- 
ern friends for the support of the Church in various ways, but 
M'e think that few applications for assistance are made that 
])resent stronger claims on our more favored friends than 
ours. The first attempt to raise the standard of our Savior 
by the Episcopalians in this State must, when known, be an 
<>])ject of great interest by our brethren everywhere, and, as 
we are sure, on our own success in this place, the prosperity 
of the Church mainly depends in this State, perhaps for many 



♦Courtesy of Mrs. Priscilla Buckner Reardon, widow of Lambert J. Reardon, and 
daughter-in-law of Lambert Reardon, Sr. 

—2— 



6 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

years. Your known zeal in the cause of the Church and the 
liberality of your parishioners towards the cause of truth, 
gives assurances of your kind othces in our behalf. 

Our friend, Dr. Xorman, will be absent some months, 
and should it not be convenient to do anvthine- for us while 
he is in Baltimore, perhaps on his return home it will be. He 
will take a letter to Dr. Henshaw from my son-in-law, ]\[r. 
Scott. 

With great respect, your friend and humble servant, 

LAMBERT REARDO^^. 

A. D. 1842, MARCH 31. 

Little Rock, Ark., March 31, 1842. 
To the Right Rev. IFm. Meade, I). D., Bishop of Virginia: 

My Dear Sir — I am perfectly aware of the continued 
claim upon your time and attention to administer to the wants 
of Churches more immediately under your own Bishopric, yet 
I am nevertheless constrained by a knowledge of your great 
zeal and liberality in such cases, and by the personal regard 
which you have ever manifested toward the writer, to solicit 
your influence in obtaining pecuniary assistance for our 
infant association of Episcopalians now struggling for exist- 
ence in this city. 

We have but a limited population in this city and the 
Church-going portion of that number was previously enlisted 
by the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist societies, which 
have been long since established. These have each collected 
their owm adherents, and doubtless proselyted those who would 
have given 'Hhe Church" a preference had one been then in 
existence. But with all these disadvantages a very small 
band of persons attached to the service of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, have associated themselves together for the ]iur- 
pose of procuring a ministei and erecting a building, wherein 
we, and all those similarly disposed, might have an oppor- 
tunity of worshiping our heavenly Father in the mode prac- 
ticed and taught to us by our earthly j)ai'Pnts, and in which 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 7 

service all our early associations and best feelings are strongly 
enlisted. 

The Missionary Society have (^out of their limited 
means) very liberally assisted us by contributing $400 per 
annum towards the support of a minister, but the expense of 
living at this place being very great and our present minister 
having a family, it is incumbent on us to contribute at least 
$600 more for that object, besides which we have contracted 
for (exclusive of the ground) and nearly linished a brick 
Church at a cost of upwards of $4,000, and, when our means 
and strength are somewhat enriched, wish to j^ut up a parson- 
age house to avoid the excessive charge of rent. We are also 
desirous of procuring an organ, not, as I think you will readily 
believe me, from any desire of ostentatious display, but in 
order that the praises of God (in chants and hymns) may be 
performed with uniform propriety and devotion, and as our 
minister's wife is a perfect proficient in music, we are the 
more desirous of giving all the aid in our power towards ren- 
dering that portion of the service as perfect as our feeble 
capacities are able to make it. 

The society in whose cause I am now pleading is the first, 
and at the date of its commencement, was the only association 
of Protestant Episcopalians within the w^hole State ! The 
monied obligations to carry out the objects in contemplation 
are too heavy to be sustained by the few persons engaged in it, 
and we call earnestly on our Episcopal brethren to assist us 
in making the "first start" and by God's help on our endeavors, 
we trust hereafter not only to support our own Church and 
minister, but to pay back into the general treasury, for the 
benefit of other needy churches, the sums which are now- 
bestowed on us. I am the more earnest in taxing the exertion 
of my personal friends, from the circumstance of having luit 
recently awakened to a sense of the impropriety of my own 
conduct in suffering a month of personal feeling to withdraw 
me (for a reason) from my duty toward the Church. That 
stumbling block is now removed, and T thank God that He 
has shown me the error of my course. The chano-e of times 



8 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

and great reduction of salary has, however, materially lessened 
my own ability to contribute to the work and likewise prevents 
others from snbscribing thereto, under which consideration, I 
am impressed witli a deep sense of the duty imposed on me 
to use the greater diligence and exertion in repairing (to the 
utmost of my ability) the injury which I have done the cause, 
by withdrawing from its support. If the occasion will not 
give warrant for my public appeals within your diocese, suffer 
me to request that you will personally apply to some few 
friends of the Church, whom the Providence of God has ren- 
dered abundantly able, and whose uniform benevolence has 
proved them to be ever ready to conti-ibute towards any proper 
cause. 

Our own resources are exhausted, leaving us in debt, 
with the Church unfinished, and donations, however small, 
will be most thankfully received and acknowledged. 

Before I close, permit me, dear sir, to tender my grateful 
acknowledgments for your kindness and protecting care of 
my much beloved and bereaved daughter, Jane I^elson, the 
recollection of which is indelibly imprinted on all of our 
hearts, and the prayer of the widow and fatherless will daily 
ascend to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, that His 
richest blessing may descend on you and 3'ours. Mrs. Crease 
desires to join in affectionate regards to every member of your 
own family, and to our worthy frieiuls at Long Branch, and 
kind remembrance to all others Avho have any recollection of 
or regard for us, and with sentiments of the highest respect 
and regard. 

I remain most truly yours, 

T. TI. CREASE.* 

Letter from Tiishop Meade, of Virginia, respecting col- 
lections for church : 



*Courtesy of the daughters of John H. Crease. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 9 

Stuunton, Va., May 19, iS-t^. 
To Mr. J. II. Crease, Little Roch, Ark.: 

My Dear Friend — Lest yon should for a moment sup- 
pose that I neglect your letter, I seize a moment of leisure 
in the midst of convention, and with a bad pen and paper 
write to say that I have just received your -kind communi- 
cation. 

Would that I were able to enclose you something or knew 
who were both able and willing to do it. My dear friend, 
if you knew all we have to do in Virginia, how many A\ish to 
beg for new Cliurches, plain ones, without organs, but dare 
not, and how liard the times are with us, you would not be 
surprised at my doing nothing. 

T hope in a few weeks to see Jane and her chihlren. They 
are well, I hear. I trust God will bless them. 

Business calls me away. Love to all yours. 
Your sincere friend, 

WILLIAM MEADE. 

There is a list of the subscribers to the building fund of 
the first Episcopal Church, carefully entered in a little 
account book, by J. II. Crease, and his successor as treasurer 
of the fund, Lambert Reardon. The names are liere given, 
ai.>^ will be read with interest : 

Bishop Polk's check, $800, sold for $970. The cost of 
the lots was $900, which was paid from this check. The list 
is headed with the names of those who made the collections 
from the citizens generally : Dr. Yeager, John H. Crease, 
Wm. C. Scott, and Jos. Grubl). The list continues with the 
names of Wm. S. Fulton, Wm. E. Woodruff, Edward Dunn, 
J. Mitchell, John Adamson, Wm. Prather, Jas. De Baum, 
White & Le Part, Archibald Yell, Richard F. Dunn, Jas. C. 
Anthony, S. M. Weaver, Jno. Humphries, Charles Bapley, 
W. W. Adams, Julian Imbeau, Jno. Brown, E. Y. Baker, 



10 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Joseph Feiiiio, James B. Keatts, Chas. B. Magnider, Elias X. 
Conway, Bichard C. Hawkins, Alexander Boileau, Sam H. 
Webb, C. A. Harris, Wm. Vance, Jr., H. Mitchell, S. C. 
Fanlkner, B. B. Sutton, J. A. JIutchings, Johnson and Lewis, 
Martin George, Sr., Arthur Whitfield, L. D. Evans, Young 
Stephenson, Wm. CHimmins, B. T. Bedman, Wm. Pelham, 
Samuel Fasmacht, Philip L. Anthony, M. C. Sale, J. W. 
Tappe, J. Both, J. B. Badgett, Wm. Brown, Jacob Tute- 
weiler, Ebenezer Cummins, H. Haberman^ Geo. A. Worthen, 
Jos. Grubb, Stephen S. Tucker, Mr. McGowan, Geo. W. 
Johnston, John Henderson, Josiah Gould, H. E. Blanck, 
J. Wilberwomen, D. F. Shall, G. X. Peay, cash of Haroldson, 
John Bobins, F. W. Trapnall, D. J. ilaldwin, B. F. Duval, 
Albert Pike, E. H. Boane, Mary E. Dickinson, M. Killian, 
B. A. Watkins, Bishop Otey, B. C. Byrd, Judge Bingo, B. W. 
Johnson, M. Schelthom, Anthony H. Davis, General Hillj 
Witter, Silas Craig, W. H. Gaines, Simeon Jaseph, Thomas 
Thorn, David Bender, S. P. Buckner, W. B. Buckner, AV. 
Boardman, (\ A. Cunningham, J as. Lawson, Sr., Lambert 
Beardon, L. J. Beardon, John Hutt, Jas. S. Conway, Major 
Butler, Jno. W. Johnson, L. E. Barber, W. B. Dunn, M. P. 
Stewart, Dr. J. P. Xorman, Jno. L. Berg, John W. Cocke, 
ISTathaniel Clifton, George N. Causine, Thos. Butterworth, 
N. T. Gaines, Thos. W. :^rewton, Geo. C. Watkins, M. G. 
Daven})ort, A. Whitfield. 

There was an additional list of donations made by non- 
residents of Little Bock to the Vestry of Christ Church for 
the purpose of completing their building. These gentlemen 
lived on plantations on the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, 
and in the interior of the State, viz: Simeon Buckner, Wm. B. 
Wait, Wm. S. Fulton, Jas. S. Conway, Wm. P. Beyburn, 
Young Ste])heiison, S. C. Faulkner, David Walker, Anthony 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 11 

11. Davis, G. Hill, and 1). Twitten, Silas Craig, Wm. H. 
Gaines and Tlios. Thoni. 

Little Rock, May 20, 1843. 

To the Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Little Bock: 

Gentlemen — The undersigned members of the congrega- 
tion of Christ Church, with the assistance of other ladies of 
Little Rock, held a fair in December last to raise funds for 
the benefit of the CJhurch. 

It was our intention to appropriate the profits of the fair 
to the purchase of an organ ; but in consideration of the embar- 
rassment under which jou labor in consequence of the debts 
of the Church and the difficulty in raising money to pay that 
debt, which we are informed is large, when compared with the 
means of the congregation, we have thought that the interest 
of the Church would be better promoted by diverting the fair 
money from the original object to the debts of the church. 

For these considerations we are willing to forego our 
individual wishes for an organ, and now tender to the Church 
the money in our hands, amounting to $1,10G.50, to be applied 
by you to the payment of her debts. Trusting that you will 
approve of our views and accept our contribution, and that it 
may relieve you of embarrassment, and tend to promote the 
interests and })rosperity of the Church, we remain 
Yours very respectfully, 

This list of names was signed individually, the last two 
in pencil : 

Jane P. Crease, Mary C. Watkins, Frances M. Trapnall, 
]\rildred Field, Ann Reardon, S. F. Johnson, P. A. Reardon, 
L. L. Butler, M. M. Johnston, Jane J. Holt, Mrs. Cocke, Mrs. 
Cook. 

Cost of Christ Church, from treasurer's book, $4:, 2-13. 17. 

Cost of the lots donated by Bishop Polk, $900. 

Acknowledgment from Vestry of Christ CUiurch to 
"J.ady Managers of Fair," for amount of $1,106.50: 



12 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

To. Mrs. Crease, Wa fir ins. Etc. : 

The Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, acknowledge 
the receipt of your letter of the 20th of May, tendering to the 
cliurch, to be applied in payment of her debts, the sum of 
$1,106.50, being the profits of a fair held by you for the pur- 
pose of purchasing an organ. 

We thank you for ourselves, and, as the guardians of the 
temporal interests of the Church, we thank you in her name 
for your kindly relief in removing the heavy pecuniary respon- 
sibilities inider which she labors. And in accepting your con- 
tribution, we cannot but admire the generous self-denial of 
which you have given evidence by this disregard of private 
wishes when the necessities of the Church have called u})on 
your sympathies. We trust that you may always remember 
with pleasure and an approving conscience this act of generous 
self-denial ; that you may continue to grow more and more in 
every Christian grace, and become worthy members of the 
body, by whatever name called, of many of which He is the 
Head. ^ 

Following these faithful records of the planting of the 
Church in Arkansas, the annalist will place the biographies of 
the first Bishop and the first Wardens and Vestry, that of the 
first Missionary Rector having been given. 

Note. — Bishop Tolk left Little Rock March, 1830, and on the 2Cth of 
June, 1840. sent' Dr. Yeager. first minister to Christ Church. The fair, held 
December, 1842, net proceeds. .$1.106.50. — J. 11. Crease. 

Note. — Rev. .Tames Young arrived on steamer Governor Morehead, De- 
cember. 184.3. John Robins contracted for the brick work, plastering, etc. 
(ieo. S. Morrison conti acted for carpenters' work. — J. H. Crease. 




KT. HEV. LEONIDAS FOLK, S. T. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 13 

RT. KEY. LEOA'IDAS POLK, D. I)., 

l-IRST MlSSilOXAKY ISI;>1101' OF AKKAXSAS AND THE SOUTHWEST. 

A. D. 1838. On September IG, 1S38, the Rev. Leonidas 
Polk, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Columbia, Temi., was 
elected missionary bishop of xVrkansas, Indian Territory, and 
the Soutlnvest. 

A. D. 1 806-1 841 . He was born in 1806, in ^"orth Caro- 
lina; graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1S27, 
and was appointed brevet second lieutenant of artillery. Re- 
signing this position, he entered the Episcopal Theological 
Seminary at Alexandria, Va. Soon after his marriage, in 
1830, to Miss Frances Devereux, of Raleigh, X. C, he was 
ordained deacon and priest in the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and entered upon the duties as assistant to Bishop 
Moore, in the Cure of the ]\[onumental Church at that place. 
Eight years afterward, December 9, 1838, he was consecrated 
bishop and appointed missionary of the Southwest, Avliich 
included Texas, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Louisiana, 
Mississippi, and Alabama — too large a field, it seems, for 
the jurisdiction of one man. In 1839 he made his first visita- 
tion to Arkansas. Bringing to his work exalted piety, enthusi- 
asm and energy "his labors so multiplied that he was com- 
pelled to restrict the arena and, on May 20, 1811, Avas elected 
bishop of the separate Diocese of Louisiana.'' 

A. D. 1839. During Bishop Polk's first visitation to 
Little Rock, in March, 1839, he was the guest of Hon. Chester 
Ashley, who had previously made his acquaintance, during a 
journey, either to or from ^ew Haven, Conn., where young 
William Ashley matriculated at Yale College. ]\[rs. Chester 
Ashley on that occasion had emphasized the fact to hiui that 



14 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

all the prominent Christian denominations were represented 
in Little Keck except the Episcopalian. On this, his lirst 
official visit to the diocese, Bishop Polk was also entertained 
at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Jared Xewton Causine and Mr. 
and Mrs. John H. Crease. Besides these, there were but few 
families familiar with the Prayer Book at that time, and 
these were the families of Mr. Lambert Keardon, Mr. 1). W. 
Gallowav, Mr. Lnke E. Barber, Senator William S. Fulton 
(former territorial governor). Judge Daniel Bingo, Hon. 
Frederick W. Trapnall, Mr. John Wassell, ]\Ir. Abner S. 
Washbui'ii, iiiid ]\rr. Xicholas Peav. The Presbyterians 
kindly granted the use of their Church for Bishop Polk's first 
service. This was on ]\rain street, near the corner of Cherry 
(now Second), and, as there was no vestry room, the bishop 
robed at the residence of his host, Mr. Causine, on the corner 
of ]\Iain and ]\Inlberrv (Third street), and walked along the 
square in his official vestments to the ( 'hurch. This occasioned 
open-mouthed sjieculation on the part of the uninitiated vil- 
lagers and may have heljK^d to collect the bishop's first 
audience. ITe afterwards gathered together the little band 
of Episcopalians and organized a ))arish with the folloAving 
gentlemen as wardens and vestrymen :" 

John IL ('rease. Senior Wai'den. 

Luke E. Barber, Junior Warden. 

kanibert Beai-don. 

( 'harles Jvai)ley. 

John Ilntt. 

J. 1*. Xoi'nian. 

John Aihimson. 



*It was tlio ilesiro of tlip annalist to jrivo liiiof hiojiraphies of each of 
thpsp trentlpmen, bnt in four instances, after iniuh .oiiespondence failed to 
procure the neces.sarv information. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 15 

Lambert J. licardoii. 
F. W. Trapiiall. 
D. Butler. 
John Wasscll. 
William Pratlier. 

Bishop Polk selected the site for the Church building on 
the southeast corner of Orange (Fifth) and Scott streets, and 
donated nine hundred ($900) dollars for the purchase of the 
lots, the deed to Avhich is here copied from the records of the 
clerk of the circuit court and ex-ofjicio recorder made two years 
afterwards. 

A. D. 1841. ''Thomas W. Xewton aud wife to John 
Wassell and .Vbner S. Washburn, wardens of Christ Church, 
dated February '1, 184-1. Consideration of the sum $900 
conveying lots 2, 3, and -t, block 29, city of Little Rock." 

Another deed is also recorded, eight years later, for an 
additional lot on the south side: 

A. D. 1849. '^Joshua F. Green and wife to Daniel 
Itingo and John Wassell, wardens of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, dated May 1, 1849. Consideration $250, lot 1, 
block 29, city of Little Rock." 

A. D. 1841-1863. It is thought that Bishop Polk did 
not visit this mission after he was made bishop of the Diocese 
of Louisiana in 1841; but his memory has been reverently 
cherished in the traditions of those who survive, and, in the 
history of this, his first Episcopal chai-ge, he will ever figure 
as the beloved Apostle who planted the Episcopal Church in 
Arkansas. J^ater, he belonged to the South, where, as the 
bishop-general, the embodiment of Christian chivalry, his 
memory has been perpetuated by a nation. In 1861 he took 
up ai'ius against the L^nion ; was ajipointc^d nuijor-general of 



16 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

the Confederates; occupied (Jolumbus, Kj., September, 1861, 
and evacuated it March, l.^G2; commanded a division at the 
battle of Shiloh in April, 1802, also at Murfreesboro, Chatta- 
nooga and Chickamauga ; served as lieutenant-general at the 
battle of Stone River in 18Go. 

A. D. 1864. He ^vas killed June 15, 18G4, near Kene- 
saw or Pine. Mountain, Ga., where, as he was reconnoitering 
the enemy in company with some comrades, a cannon ball, 
well aimed, released him from further duty, 

'■'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down 
hi>: life for his friends.*" 

now BISHOP POLK DIED. 

Tin-; -VUVK STOKV Ol- HIS KILLING XOW FIRST :MADE Pl'P.fJC- 

A T1IRILLIX(; XARRATIVE FROM THE PEX OF CAPTAIX 
IxtVLE, WHO WITNESSED THE FIRING OF THE 

FATAL SHELL GENERAL HOWARd's 

TRIBl'TE TO HIS ANTAGONIST. 

[Copyright l).v American Press Association.] 

Captain .1. E. I'. Doyle, wlio died some time ago. left among his unpub- 
lished manuscripts the following article, which is of great historic value, as 
it is the first authentic account made public of Bishop Polk's death. — Editoii. 

The writer at various times has read many alleged 
accurate narratives of the manner in which Lientenant-Gen- 
eral and Bishop Polk met his death on Pine Mountain, Ga., 
June 15, 1864; but not one has at all approached the true 
facts. Even Dr. Lossing, in his "Civil War in America/' 
volume 3, page 378, in a foot note, says that ''Polk, Johnston, 
and Hardee were upon the summit of Pine ^Mountain when 
the cannonade commenced reconnoitering. Seeing the group. 
General Thomas, it is said, ordered a shot to be fired at them 
from Knap])'s battei-y. This caused them to retreat to a 
place of safety. Polk soon reajipeared, when another shell 
was fired which exploded near him and killed him instantlv. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 17 

The two shells were fired bv a young man named William 
Atwell, of Alleghany City, Pa., attached to Knapp's battery." 

I have generally found Dr. Lossing's accounts of military 
oj^erations that came under my personal observations correct, 
but in this case he has most certainly been imposed upon. I 
propose noAV to tell the incident just as it occurred, and I 
believe its accuracy will not be questioned by General O. O. 
Howard or any other witness living who that morning formed 
a group of which I was one. I was at that time attached to 
the headquarters of General Howard, then commanding the 
Fourth Corps. On the night of the 14th the corps bivouacked 
about tAvo miles north of the mountain, with General Stanley's 
division under orders to lead the advance on the morrow. 
About sunrise General Howard, with his staff, rode to the 
front. We found that Stanley had broken camp, and his 
command were waiting on the road with stacked arms for 
orders to advance. When we joined General Stanley and 
his staff at the extreme front, after the usual exchange of 
morning salutations between the two generals, Stanley 
remarked to General Howard : 

"General, direct your glass to that mountain" — pointing 
with his hand to its summit — "and see if you can make out 
that group. I think there is a woman in the party." 

We all whipped out our glasses in a moment and looked 
at the point indicated. Sure enough there was a group of 
about twenty in full view. In the fore were three persons 
standing up, the one in the center being dressed in what 
appeared to be a long dressing gown, and behind a number 
of men apparently seated. After a careful survey througli 
JUS glass General Howard said : "It does look like a woman, 
General. I think probably it is Bishop Polk. He is in the 
habit of wearing a morning gown sometimes. They are 
evidently there to reconnoiter." 

"Well, suppose we give the bishop a shot or two before 
we advance," said General Dave Stanley, '"'just to disturb his 
morning meditations." 

General Howard interposed no objections. Stanley then 
turned to Ca]itain Sampson, his chief of artillery, and 



18 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

remarked, "Saiiipsuii, snpjxise voii order up a section, iiulini- 
bcr and stir up the bishop I" 

AA\-ay rode Sampson. At that time I sat on my horse 
between General Howard and Captain Leonard, his chief 
signal officer, on the right of our party. The Captain, Captain 
liowgate, Captain Taylor, Captain Messenger and. other signal 
officers during the winter previous, while we lay in garrison at 
Chattanooga, had inter})reted the whole signal cipher code of 
the Confederates, and during the entire Atlanta campaign all 
dispatches signaled over the mountains were almost instantly 
translated by the Union signal corps. Presently Sampson 
arrived with two field pieces of some Indiana battery, I 
believe, under a lieutenant. One gun was placed in position 
on the right of Signal Officer Leonard, and about twelve feet 
distant. The lieutenant, after the gun was loaded, took the 
elevations, the gun was lired and the shell exploded, as far as 
we could tell by our field glasses, a little to the rear, over and 
on the right of the grou]> on the mountain. When the gun 
was reloaded Sampson threw himself from the saddle of his 
horse, whose flanks touched those of Captain Leonard's horse, 
and rushing to the gun remarked : 

"Let me sight her, lieutenant, I think I can do better than 
that.'' 

Down on his knees he fell, sighted the gun, it was dis- 
charged, and as the shell burst on the mountain we noticed a 
sudden scattering of the group. The gun had been recharged 
and Sampson was on his knees sighting it for a third messen- 
ger of death, when Signal Officer Leonard exclaimed : "Tliat 
shot killed General Polk!" 

'AVhat !" exclaimed several. '^Bishop Polk killed V 

"Yes," was T^eonard's answer; '^'they are signaling it over 
the mountains." 

"What's tluit f exclaimed Sam]ison, still ou his knees 
sighting the gun. 

Captain Leonard told hiui the news. 

Lor a moment Sami)son's head dropped forward and his 
haiids rested ou the breech of the piece. Then looking up 
lie rciiiai'kcd : "Tliaidc God ! Thev killed mv brother the 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 19 

other Jay — only a lieutenant. 1 have killed a lieutenant- 
general." 

The third shot was not tired, Sampson rising and 
remounting his horse. All of our party were visibly attected 
by the incident, no one more so than General Howard, who, 
after recovering from the effects of the news, solemnly 
remarked: "Bishop Polk killed! Then we have killed a 
Christian gentleman." 

Shortly after the signal officer reported that the enemy 
was evacuating the mountain, and an advance was ordered. 
I went up the mountain with the lirst troojJS to the spot where 
the C^onfederate group had been stationed, and there found a 
fallen tree, about thirty feet long, before which Bishop Polk 
and his associates had stood, and upon which their staff" officers 
had been seated. On the fallen timber I found what colored 
guides told us was the blood of General Polk. 

Thus did General Polk fall at Pine Mountain. Xeither 
Thomas nor Sherman was near us at the time, as they did not 
roach the front until later. 

J. E. P. DOYLE. 



LTXEAGE. 

A. D. 1777-1659. ir^jhi Rec. Leonidas Polk, 1). D., 
was the seventh son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Polk, of 
Mecklenburg County, X. C., and Sarah Hawkins, his second 
wife, wdio was a daughter of Colonel Philemon Hawkins, Jr., 
one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War. ''Lieutenant- 
Colonel William Polk was with General Washington at 
Brandywine (September, 1TT7, and Germantown October -t, 
1777) where he was wounded. He was then ordered South and 
was with General Gates in the battle of Camden (August, 
1780), and with General Greene at Guilford (March 15, 
1781), and the hard fought battle of Eutaw Springs (Sep- 
tember 8, 1781), at which battle he received a severe wound, 



20 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

tlie etfceTs of wliit-li lie carried to his grave. '■•'■ Grandson of 
'J'lioiuas Polk, Sr., and Susan Spratt, his wife. Thos. Polk 
was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, 
declared at Charlotte May 20, 1775, and colonel of the second 
battalion of minute men in 1775, and afterwards colonel of 
tlie Foui-th Regiment of the Continental Army in 1776 ; great 
grandson of William Polk and Priscilla Roberts, his wife; 
great great grandson of John Polk and Joanna Knox, his 
wife; great great great grandson of Robert Pollock (the 
original name) and Magdalen Tasker, his wife (widow of 
Colonel Porter, Chancellor of Ireland), who emigrated to 
]\raryland, United States, in 1050; and great great great 
great grandson of John Pollock, of Lanarkshire, Scotland, 
situated not fai- from the Cathedral City of Glasgow. 

The children of Bishop Polk and Frances Devereux, his 
wife, were : 

Alexander Jlamilton, deceased. 

Frances Devereux (Polk) Skipwith (Mrs. P. H. Skip- 
with), of Oxford, Miss. 

Katherine (Polk) Gale (::\rrs. AYilliam D. Gale), of 
Xashville, Tenn. 

Sarah Hawkins (Polk) Blake (Mrs. Francis D. Blake), 
of 2\ew Orleans, La. 

Susan Rayner (I'olk) Jones (Mrs. Joseph Jones), of 
( 'oliiinbia, Tenii. 

Kli/.abeth Devereux (Polk) Tluger (Mrs. AVm. II. 
linger), of Xew Orleans, La, 

Dr. William A[. Polk, who married Miss Ida Lyon, Xew 
York City. 

Rebecca Lucia (Polk) Chapnnin (Mv^. Edward Chap- 
man), of Chestnut Hill Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa. 

1. See Whpdcr's History of North Carolina. 




ST. JOHNS CHURCH, ASHWOOD, TENNESSEE. 



JOHN H. CREASE, 

FIRST SENIOR WARDEN. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 21 

A numerous posterity are descendauts of these worthy 
ancestors.^ 

As Bishop Polk's tirst coniuiuuicatiou relating to the 
Church in Arkansas was addressed to Mr. John H. Crease, 
who became Senior Warden, the annalist places his biography 
in the first place among those of the laity. 



JOIIX H. CREASE, 

FIKST SEMOK' WARDEN OF CHKIST OJIURCU, LITTLE ROCK. 

A. D. 1780-1789. Tn Bishop Meade's interesting work, 
^^Old Cliurches, Ministers and Families of Virginia/' the 
reader is especially attracted to the account of the Church at 
Alexandria, Va., where, in 1780, the Rev. David Griffith 
officiated. Among his congregation was George Washington, 
who, though ^'having just been engaged in the erection of 
Mount Vernon Church, which was finished the same year and 
in which he had a pew, gives the highest price for one in 
Christ Church, Alexandria, Fairfax Parish. This pew was 
occupied by him and his family during his life, and has been 
by some of his name and family ever since." In the list of 
Vestrymen of this parish of Fairfax in 1789 (George Taylor 
and Edmund J. Lee being named as Church Wardens), occur 
the names of John H. Crease and his brother, Anthony 
Crease. 

A, D. 1851-1872. John H. Crease was called from 
Alexandria to Little Rock to fill the position of cashier of the 
State Bank. He was afterwards made treasurer of the bank, 
and served in that capacity from 1851 to 1855 and from 1856 



2. For account of Bishop Polk's ancestors, see American Archires, vol. 
11 fourth series, pages r)o-Sr)8, May 20-31, 1775 : and vol. 1. fifth series, 
pages 11. 489, 1343. 

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22 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

to 1859. He came in advance of Lis family, a wife and six 
children, in 1839, and took up liis residence in the State Bank 
building, corner of Markham and Center streets, which had 
been arranged with a suit of living rooms with a view to his 
occupation. Mr. Crease was a man of slight stature, with 
nervous, energetic action, cheerful, affable and courteous to all. 
In character he was inflexibly honest, almost to stern exact- 
ness, incapable of deceit or treachery. His rigid sense of 
justice cost him his place twice in his life, but with him "a 
good name was rather to be chosen than great riches," and he 
carried one unspotted to his grave. He and his wife were 
earnest and devoted Church people. John H. Crease and 
lAike E. Barber were AYardens of the first Episcopal C'hurch. 
The new building was consecrated by Bishop Otey in 1842. 
Mrs. Crease's maiden name was Jane ISTewton. In West- 
moreland County, Va., the Newton family was one of note 
and the name occurs frequently on the Vestry list of the 
Church. At ''Wilmington," the family seat of the INTewtons, 
an inscription on a grave arrests attention. It is this: 
''Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of Mrs. Sarah 
Newton, daughter of George Eskridge, and late wife of Cap- 
tain Willowby Newton, of Westmoreland County, who, after 
having justly established the character of a dutiful child, 
a faithful friend, an affectionate mother and sincere Chris- 
tian, departed this life on the 2d of September, 1Y53, in the 
forty-sixth year of her age." This was an ancestress of Mrs. 
Crease, who perpetuated her virtues. Mrs. Crease died on 
Good Friday, March, 1872. As she was passing away, she 
turned to her husl)aud and said, "We have journeyed long 
togotlier," to which he replied, ''I shall not be long in follow- 
ing you." She was buried on Easter Sunday by Rt. Rev. 
H. N. Pierce. The chancel had been beautifullv decorated 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 23 

with flowers for the Easter service. These were draped with 
black crepe for the funeral, which was attended bv a large 
ccnconrse of relatives and friends. Her husband did not long 
survive. He died nine months later in the following Decem- 
ber of the same year. They were both buried from the 
Church they had helped to build and sleep together in Mount 
Holly Cemetery, having left a numerous posterity. 

The children of John H. and Jane l^ewton Crease are : 

1. Jane Crease. Married first Rev. George W. Xelson, 
of Virginia. Children: George W. Jr., Jane Crease, and 
Thomas Crease Keelson. After his death she married Philip 
I^elson. Children : Frank, William, and Caroline Peyton 
ISTelson. George W. Xelson, now Episcopal minister of 
Warrenton, Va., married Mary iSTelson Scollay, of Virginia. 
Children : Page, Thomas C, Harry Lee, George W., 
Philip, Charlotte, Carrie P., Scollay, and Mary I^elson. 
Page Nelson married Hugh ISTelson, of Virginia. Children: 
ISTancy and Hugh. Thomas ISTelson married Miss Withers, 
of Virginia. The rest unmarried. Jane Crease ISTelson, 
unmarried ; principal of Episcopal Female Seminary, of 
Chatham, Va. Thomas Crease I^elson, dead. Frank Nel- 
son married Miss Withers, of Virginia. Children: Page, 
Blanche, Frank, and Caroline. William NelsoUj M. D., of 
Danville, Va., married Miss Moorehead, of jSTorth Carolina ; 
one child, William. Caroline Nelson, dead. 

2. Louisa Crease. Married Thomas Johnson, Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas from 1836 to 1844, 
eight years. Children: Anthony, John and Thomas (twins), 
and Benjamin Johnson. 

3. Anthony Crease. Died unmarried. 

4. Mary Crease. Married George C. Watkins, Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas from 1844 to 1852, 



24 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



eio-lit years, wlicn lie resii-iied otHce and resumed the practice 
of law. Their children are (1) Anderson Watkins, killed in 
Civil War; (-2) Dr. Claiborne Watjyins, who married Mildred 
Parley, and had Annie, Mary, :\iildred, and Gertrude Wat- 
kins; (3) ]Vallon Wallans, who married Sue Trezevant, and 
had Anderson and Ueyward Watkins; (4) Louisa Watkins, 
who married \Km. Fulton Wright, and had Moorhead, May, 
Watkins Fulton, and Louise Wright; May Wright married 
8. F. Iloge, of Kentucky. They have three children, Virginia 
Briggs, Fulton Wright, and Charles Eugene Iloge. (5) 
Mary Watkins who died in the hloom of early womanhood 
imniarried, a heautiful and accomplished member of society. 
r>. Caroline Crease. Married Dr. Craven Peyton, a 
distinguished and beloved physician of Little Rock, who 
died in LS72. His widow still survives, and, as a 
sincere and juous (Miristiau, has wielded a silent, but power- 
ful influence in the Church of which she is a beloved member. 
The nunisoleum in ]\Iount Holl}^ Cemetery, the most promi- 
nent one there, which she caused to be erected to the memory 
of her idolized husbaiul, is but one evidence of her fidelity 
as a wife and widow. On the massive marble pedestal, a life- 
size marblf Imst of the deceased arrests the attention of all 
visitoi's. 

• !. Jlenrt/ Crease. JJied unmarried. 

7. t<o})hia Crease. Unmarried. Secretary of the 
J)o;ird of (hianlians of -'I'he Old Ladies' Home." 

8. Susan Crease. Married Gordon IST. Peay, Captain 
of Sixth Arkansas l^egiment, C. S. A., afterwards colonel, and 
iiiayor of kittle Kock before the act of secession, and for many 
years clei-k of Pulaski Chancery Court. lie died in 1876. 
Hi- widow survives and has been twice president of ''The 
I.adi« s Aid Society" of Christ Church. There is a window 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 25 

on tlie north side of the new C'hnreh phiced by his widow "in 
loving memory of Gordon X. Peay." There are two fignres, 
Christ and St. John, holding a chalice with a serpent in it. 
The cup with the ser])ent is designed to illustrate the sacred 
legend that poison was once offered to Christ in a cu]>, from 
which He expelled the venom in the form of a serpent, l\v mak- 
ing the sign of the cross. The children of Colonel Gordon JNT. 
Peay and Susan Crease, his wife, were: Jane (Mrs. W. W. 
]\rorrison), Mary (Mrs. W. Booker Worthen), John, 
deceased, Sue, deceased, Nicholas, married Leicester Ilorni- 
brook, Elizabeth (Mrs. Antoine Bohlinger), Gordon Xeil, 
married Zilla Cole, and Caroline. 

U. La urn Crease. ]\Iarried ]\Iajor John \\'. Lewis, of 
Virginia. Their children are Laura Lewis (Mrs. Tighlman 
Howard Bunch), and Sue Peay Lewis, unmarried. l\lr. and 
Airs. Bunch have one son, T. LI. Bunch, -Ir. 

A. D. 1897. ]\Iiss Sojiliia Crease has l)een a ])Owerful 
factor in most of the philanthropic work of the parish. In 
the Arhansas Gazette of date May 2, 1897, appeared, as 
quoted here, a brief sketch of the "Jane Kellogg Llome," more 
frequently called "The Old Ladies' Home," which is under 
the su]iervision of a Ijoard of Gentlemen ]\fanagers and Lady 
Guardians, representing every C^hristian denomination in the 
city, of which board Miss Ch'ease is the secretary. 

JANE KELLOGG HO:\IE. 

AX INSTITUTION OF LOVE AXD MERCY KEPOUT OF MISS 

CREASE, TITE SECRETARY. 

The following very interesting annual report was filed on 
Eriday last by Miss Sophia Crease, secretary of the Board of 
Guardians: 



26 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

To (he Board of Maiiaycrs and Lady Guardians: 

1 must confess to a feeling of timidity, or, I should say, 
a full sense of incapacity, in ai)pearing before you in the role 
of reporter. I am most assuredly cognizant of the "still 
small voice," which tells of more good I might have done, than 
The little amount accomplished, had it not been for the well- 
known stumbling block, "pleasure before duty.'' The big 
"l" and little "you" fighting for the mastery resulting, as full 
many a time and oft it does to vulnerable humanity, in favor 
of the big 1. 

Craving your leniency for the rather egotistical prelude 
to this report, I will say: "The Jane Kellogg Home" is now 
in its fifteenth year. From a venture cast upon the waves 
of ])ublic o])inion and Little Rock charity in the year 1883, it 
lias grown until now the State at large recognizes it as an 
institution of love and mercy, which a Divine Providence 
seems truly to have smiled upon, so wonderful has been its 
support. It is true, there have been times when a very small 
exchequer would present itself to your view to cai-ry on the 
home's necessary existence, yet, through the over-shadowing 
clouds, there has evei- penetrated the sunshine of "help in 
the time of need," i})ibuing the trusting heart with a full 
sense of relief in the Father's watchful care. 

The past year seems to have glided onward not unlike its 
pi-edecessors. We have much to be thankful for, and but 
little to complain of. The health of the household has on an 
average been most excellent, especially when considering the 
advanced age of most of the inmates. There has been one 
admission into the home and one death. Of course, the regu- 
l.ii- monthly rejiort of the secretary embraces each month's 
l;;i|>p('niiigs, and is duly inscribed upon the record. The main- 
fciijiiicc of the home during the year has been accomplished 
pretty nnich in the usual way. The annual donation week, 
which cuts quite a large figure in the running of the home, 
v:as well cared for by the generous-hearted ones of our city, 
an.l the guardians felt very grateful for the liberal responses 
given to their a])peal. The renting of rooms in the building, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 27 

donations of various kinds, with the very material help 
afforded by the board of managers — the institution presents a 
homelike and comfortable condition. The present matron, 
Mrs. Emory, has been with us for two years past, and we have 
no cause of complaint regarding her supervision of the house- 
hold affairs.* We deem her faithful in the discharge of her 
duties, and sympathetic in regard to the old ladies' M'ants, 
thereby establishing the peace of the home. 

In June last the board of guardians convened for its an- 
nual election of officers. Mrs. R. A. Edgerton was duly 
elected president, Mrs. James Pollock, first vice president ; 
Mrs. E. Longley, second vice president; Miss Crease, secre- 
tary, and Mrs. E. A. Van Etten, who has for so long and faith- 
fully served the board, re-elected treasurer. Our board has 
been pleasantly augmented during the present year by the 
board of managers placing thereon Mrs. Pauline Reichardt, 
Mrs. B. J. Brown, Mrs. I). L. Gray, Mrs. John Moore, Mrs. 
P. K. Roots, and Mrs. C. M. Taylor. The board has ever 
been a most harmonious one, as certainly it should be, in this 
work of charity, and surely there is no greater charity than the 
care of the old and helpless. There are now in the home 
those who will very shortly cross the '"''silent river," having 
long since passed their three score and ten years. A refuge 
in the time of trouble has the institution been to them, and 
that it may continue to be a haven of rest for the unfortunate 
and wayworn pilgrims, surely should be the wish of each 
Christian heart. 

I cannot close this report without mention of the home's 
good and kind physician, I)r. Christian, who, from its organi- 
zation, has been the ever faithful friend, answering promptly 
calls at all hours, sympathizing and administering to the sick, 
without money and without price, ]U'oving indeed the "Good 
Samaritan" to the "Jane Kellogg Homo." 

A. S. CREASE, 
Secretary Board of Guardians. 

*Mrg. Elizabeth Upliam Reeve is her efficient snecessor. 



28 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



In the southeast corner of the new Church may be seen 
a stained glass window, bearing the inscription, "In loving 
memory of John and Jane P. Crease," which represents 
Zacharias bearing the child, "who was to be the prophet of the 
hijilu^st,'' to the temple for circumcision, with Elizabeth ac- 
companying him. Among the numerous posterity of John 
and Jane Crease this custom of taking the children to be 
"baptized in Christ" has been religiously preserved, and the 
blessing of God has followed them. 

LAl\rBFJlT REARDOX, SR. 

A. D. 1841-1860. Mr. Lamhcrt Reardon, Si:, was a 
niend)er of the first Vestry of Christ Church. In May, 1841, 
he made the contract with ]\Iessrs. Robins and Wassell for 
building the first Church, Avhich Mr. Crease desired to be 
named "Christ Church," after the Church of his former devo- 
tion in Alexandria, Va. Mr. Reardon was a man of large 
experience. He was born in Virginia and married Ann Jef- 
frey, a native of Wilmington, Del. He came to Little Rock 
in 1830 and lived with his family in 1837 on West Markham 
street, on the summit of a hill, where his home, a commodious 
brick building, was seated. A deep dell or wooded ravine 
separated this hill from Broadway on the east. It was a 
favorite walk in 1849 for young people to descend into the 
valley and clind) to the op]X)sitc eminence for a visit to the 
widow Reardon, whose fine, intelligent countenance and portly 
figure would have arrested attention anywhere. The ravine 
was filled up and bridged and a street railway track now lies 
across it, all ni' which has ruthlessly shorn the locality of its 
natural beauty and charm, while the little stream at the bottom 
tliat oiice made music slipping over the stones, is hushed into 
silence like many wlio once passed over it. Bishop Polk and 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 29 

Bishop Otey were entertained by Mr. and ]\lrs. Iteardon at 
this home, whose chiklren and grand children were baptized 
and coniirnied bj those holy apostles. Mr. Reardon died 
Xoveniber 10^ 184!). His widow snrvived him eleven years 
and died in IS GO. The residence became the property of 
Colonel Gordon X. Peay, whose children Avere bronght up 
there and is still the residence of his widow. The children of 
Mr. and ^frs. Land)ert lieardon, Sr., were: 

1. Helen Eeai-don who married Wm. ( '. Scott, in Mary- 
land, lie was district attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas in 1S46. Mr. and Mrs. Scott had one daughter, 
Blanche, who became the wife of Captain Sokolski, United 
States Army. She was the first person baptized in the tirst 
Episco])al Church, and was when a woman, a brilliant 
musician. 

2. L'lrhiia Rearclun. who married William B. Wait. 
They had Land)ert, William, Herbert, and diaries Edmund. 
Only the last mentioned survived the parents. Charles E. 
Wait married first Miss Leila Beasley; had one daughter, 
Fanny, and second, Miss Hattie Morrilton, of Virginia, and 
had one son, Charles Edmund, Jr. 

.3. Lamheii Jeffrey Reardon, who married Priscilla 
Aylett Buckner and had Simeon Buckner, who died unmar- 
ried ; Anne Lavinia, who married Patrick Raleigh, broker 
and real estate agent, and had nine sons, of whom seven sur- 
vive — Richard, Lambert, Edwin, Frederick, Joseph, Robert, 
and James; Lambert Walter, who died unmarried, and Lallie, 
who married Dr. James A. Dibrell, a distinguished physician 
and surgeon of Little Rock, and had two sons who survive 
her — John Raleigh and James Lambert. 

4. John E. Reardon who died unmarried. He was 
for a lone time bookseller and stationer on northeast corner of 



30 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Scott and Markliaiii streets. He was liiglilj esteemed, espe- 
cially in musical circles, where he, with his guitar, was in 
Constant ro(iuisitiou. 

l.AMBERT JEFFREY REARDOX. 

A. D. 1837-1847. Lambert Jeffrey Rearclon, son of 
I.ambert Reardon, was also a member of the first Vestry of 
the Church, in the building of which his father had had so 
prominent a position. He was a man of marked ability and 
culture, for a long while editor of the Arhansas Banner, and 
was mayor of the city, 1845-1847. In social life he was a 
man of elegant manners and graceful as a conversationalist. 
He married Priscilla Aylett Buckner, who Avas, and has 
always been, a model of refinement and amiability. Her 
]:»arents were C^aptain Simeon Buckner, of Kentucky, who 
married his cousin, Nancy Watson, of Virginia. ''In 1837 
Captain Simeon Buckner received a commission from the 
goveruiiient to remove the Florida Indians from Vicksburg to 
Fort Gibson. He bought six or eight steamboats or their 
transi)ortation and finished his work in about a year, making 
a small fortune out of it. In the fall of 1837 he removed with 
his family to Little Rock, where they remained until 1839, 
\\-hcu h(^ went to Clark County and purchased the Richwoods 
y»Uintation, near Arkadelphia, one of the richest of the State. 
His son, William Perry Buckner, who had remained at school 
in Kentucky, came to Arkansas in 183s and attended school 
in Springfield, Hempstead County, boarding Avith ex-Governor 
(iarhuurs mother. ITe then went to Alexandria, Va., and 
while There attending the university was ap])ointed to the 
iiavy from Arkansas, and served on tlie Marion, the Bain- 
bridge, the Macedonian, the historic Constitution and other 
~liij)s. He was the first midshijiman ever a])pointed from 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 31 

Arkansas. He went through the war a member of the Federal 
navy, and in 1866, after twenty-six years' active service in 
the navy of the United States, was placed on the retired list — 
died July 10, 1869. Wife and one son died soon after; one 
son, William, still living." Captain Buckner, in his Pacific 
cruises, has unconsciously become a connecting link between 
the Manila of 1845 and the Manila of 1898. The log book 
kept b}^ him when a midshipman supplies an interesting 
description, quoted here from a copy i]i Arkansas Democrat of 
date May 19, 1898: 

FROM AN OLD LOG BOOK. 

DESCRIPTION OF A NOTED PLACE AND PEOPLE BY A MIDSHIP- 
MAN ON THE CONSTITUTION PKOPIIECY OF FIFTY 

YEARS AGO THAT THE ENSLAVED POPULACE 
WOULD SOMETIME RISE IN REBELLION^. 

[Arhmsas Democrat, May 19, 1898.] 

The historic man-o'-war, Constitution, which bore an 
active and valiant part in the early naval warfare of our coun- 
try, visited the city Manila over fifty years ago on a peaceful 
mission, in command of Captain John Percival. The log of 
its Pacific cruise records that the ship entered Manila Bay 
September 12, 184.5, and that the Spanish captain of the port 
visited the ship, also a French officer from the French frigate 
Sabine ; saluted the Spanish flag witli twenty-one guns, which 
was returned ])y the fort on shore. 

The log book of that cruise was kept by Midshipman 
W^. P. Buckner, and is now a precious relic in the possession 
of Mrs. Priscilla A. Reardon, one of Little Rock's oldest and 
most esteemed residents, and a sister of ^lidshipman Buckner. 

From the log is taken the following interesting descrip- 
tion of the bay and city of Manila, which will be especially 
iijteresting now on account of the great victory^ won there but 
recently by American arms: 



32 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

''The city of iMaiiila is situated on the southwest side of 
the island of Luzon or Luconia. It is said to contain about 
90,000 inhabitants, most of whom are Indians and half-breeds. 
The city is built on an extensive flat and is surrounded by rice 
fields. The European city is on the south side of the river, 
and is walled in with a strong wall and encompassed on every 
side by a ditch about forty feet wide. The walls have many 
embrasures already filled with guns. Xo doid)t numy more 
are stored away in the arsenals. A river about 200 yards 
wide runs through the town; it has been walled up on each 
side for many miles — a beautiful and well built bridge crosses 
the river about one mile from its mouth. The Euro]:)ean city 
is well built and clean. Its houses are usually about two 
stories high, and are built of either stone or brick. The city 
is full of churches. Some of tliem have a very old look, and 
one or two were truly s])lendid, or rather grand, inside. A 
stranger would be (as I was) surprised at the number of 
priests who meet him in the streets. 'T is said ( and not much 
doubt of it either) that they are the smartest and most influ- 
ential men in the place. They certainly are very polite men, 
and have a sort of bon-vivant look about them that speaks of 
something else but spiritual food. The town north of the 
river is not walled. It is very well built and is the business 
part of Manila. The streets are quite regular. The town 
is cut up in tw'o or three directions by wide canals. These 
canals were no doubt dug to facilitate commerce, and also for 
defense. They are all crossed in many places by excellent 
si one bridges. 

"There are many diinese in Manila. They all keep 
little shops or stores in the principal streets. The cigar man- 
ufactories are well worth seeing. There are emploved in 
Manila under one roof ujnvards of 7,000 girls — it is a beauti- 
ful sight— all l)usv, but still they find enough time to smile 
on a young stranger, to say 'Buenos dias, sen or/ to a young 
inan, or '}fiichas (jrarias' to a eomjdiment. Some of these 
girls are (piite beautiful, and si)eak so softlv that I for one 
delighted to listen to their voices. The Manila cheroots are 
nearly as good as the Havana segars. Some persons like them 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 33 

better. For my part I had rather smoke a cheroot made 
by the pretty Maiiihi girls than the Havana made by African 
negroes, though the Havana may be the best. 

'"^lanihx Bay is surrounded by high mountains. Many 
of them appear to be the craters of volcanoes. Shocks of 
tvirthquakes are sometimes felt in ^lanila. The bay is quite 
(.pen and almost entirely free from dangers. There is good 
anchorage about three miles from the town, on muddy bottom. 
It does not require a pilot to enter the bay. Near the city 
are e.s tensive fields of rice. The roads are in line order and 
the views pretty and pleasant. Part of the Indian town is 
built of bamboo. The Indians appear to be a very ingen- 
ious race. They weave a kind of cloth from the fibers of 
the pineapple which is nmch finer than any silk. Everyone 
in Manila is a Christian. The Spaniards establish their 
religion as they conquer. The sword is of great use to some 
nations, for it is only by tlie sword that they can be civilized. 
The sword has converted more nations to a religion than 
persuasion. But still, though these people have been con- 
verted by force, anyone can see the improvement of their 
country. 'T is said the population has doubled itself several 
limes since the conquest, I have heard a great many per- 
sons speak against the Catholics for their intrigues with sav- 
age nations, but in this instance 1 must say that, though they 
Jiave enslaved the country, yet they have enriched it. I 
believe that this slavery of the people will break forth one day 
so that they will enjoy a free and perfect liberty, and by being 
civilized they Avill know how to appreciate it. There are in 
Manila about 3,000 troops, mostly natives. Manila is ex- 
tremely well fortified and could make a stout defense, if stout 
hearts held it. But the Spaniards now have a saying that it 
takes a Spaniard to build, a Frenchman to take, and an Eng- 
lishman to keep their forts. The ditch is nearly filled up 
on the south side of the town. The ruins of the wall would 
enable a storming party to cross it. 'T is said, though, that 
a golden kev would unlock all the gates of Manila. There 
are two long moles built out into the sea ; on one of them is a 
lighthouse; the otlier has a battery of long brass guns. Of 



34 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

ail evening it is a pretty sight on the paphao. All the pretty 
Spanish girls can be seen about sundown there in their 
valantes. The band of the garrison (a splendid one) usually 
attends; in fact, from 4 p. m. till 10 at night is the stirring- 
time of day, when everybody wishes to see and be seen. 

''Manila city was founded in 1640. About fifteen 
miles above the city is a lake thirty miles across. It is sur- 
rounded by high mountains and bordered with Indian villages. 
The dress of the Indian girls is about half savage, half civi- 
lized. The skirts are worn loose from the body, and some- 
times rather low for our modest notions. The men dress 
much like the Europeans. They wear hats, while the women 
never wear anything more than a handkerchief or veil over 
their heads. The island of Luzon is about 360 miles long. 
It is a rich and fertile island, producing for exportation to- 
bacco, segars, hemp, sugar and rice." 

Simeon Buckner, of Iventucky, native of Virginia, father 
of Captain Buckner, F. S. X., married Miss Xancy Watson, 
of Virginia, and had three children : 

1. PvisclUa Aijlctt who inarricd Lambert Jeffrey 
Bear don. 

•2. Win. Perry Bucloicr. U. S. X., who married Miss 
^Lary ^lez/Ack, of Maryland. Their children were Mezzick 
Aylett, Joseph, and William ; the last only survives. 

o. Josephine Preston Buckner, who married Bobert 
( 'leiiients and had one daughter, Irene Bebecca, who survived 
tlic mother but three months. 

The next most distinguished member of this band of 
<^ 'lii'Istiaii pioneers was 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 35 



JARED XEWTO]N^ CAUSI:NE, 

who was one of the most pious and devoted churchmen on the 
list of memhers of Christ Church. lie was a native of 
Leonardtown, St. Mary (bounty, ]Md., and there married 
Eleanor Douglas Marshall, and afterwards moved to Arkan- 
sas. They had fifteen children, of whom five only reached 
maturity, viz: John, Jane P., William, and Mary Susan 
Causine. 

John Causine, a lawyer, on his return to Maryland, after 
a visit to liis family at Little Rock, died at Cairo, 111., from 
a stroke of apoplexy. lie was a man of hrilliant attainments 
and the pride of his widowed mother. The news of his 
death put a period to her life. The remains were brought 
back to Little Rock and mother and son were buried in one 
grave at Mount Holly Cemetery. He was never married. 

Jane P. Causme married at Leonardtown, Md., Luke E. 
Barber, of Charles County, Md. 

William Causine died unmarried. 

Mary Susan Causine married Robert Clements in 18G2, 
and had four children^ of whom two survive, John Causine 
Clements and Jenny Barber Clements. 

A. D. 1 836. Mr. Jared ^N^ewton Causine and ]Mr. Luke 
E. Barber came with their families to Arkansas in 1836, the 
year of its admission into the L^nion^ and settled on a farm 
in Jefferson County, near Pine Bluif. This farm was after- 
wards sold to Mr. G. ]\I. D. Cantrell, a banker of Xashville, 
Tenn., and brother of Dr. W. A. Cantrell, of Little Rock. 

A. D. 1838-1886. Lul-e E. Barber, the son-in-law of 
Mr. Causine, had practiced law in Maryland, was a member 
of the Arkansas State Legislature from Jefferson County in 



36 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

1838, and moved to Little Koek in 1841, bringing a number 
of slaves with him. In 1845 he was appointed clerk of the 
Supreme Court of Arkansas, Avliich position he held until his 
death (with the excej^tion of one interval, when X. W. Gox 
held the office), on June 13, 188(5, being 80 years of age. He 
was a ^lason of high degree, and was buried from C^hrist 
Church Chapel by the Order of Knights Templars. Dr. T. C. 
Tupper, Rector of Christ Church, who had preached his fare- 
well sermon to the congregation from the text John xv. 12 : 
"Love one another," had left for Leavenworth, Kan., his new 
point of service. He w^as telegraphed to return and officiated 
at the burial. He, also a Mason, entered the Church, leading 
the funeral procession with a crosier or staff of Masonic im- 
port. On his breast was a large scarlet Maltese cross and an 
under robe of azure was just visible down the front line of 
his white surplice. The Knights Templars, the members of 
the Su])reme Court, and the Church Yestry supplied pall 
bearers from their several orders. After the pall, followed a 
body of Knights Templars and Masons, then the family, then 
the mendx'rs of the bar, all of whom occupied the transepts, 
the nave being filled with citizens. Dr. Tupper made some 
appropriate remarks and the procession followed the remains 
of this good man to his grave. A Avindow of staijied glass in 
the northwest end of the new Church, re])resenting the Good 
Sanuiritan, friend to the man who fell among thieves, was 
jilaced to his memory by his widow. Xothing could more 
ti.itlifully illustrate his character, 

A. D. 1897. Mrfi. Jane P. Barber, his widow, survived 
him eleven years. She had always been the spiritual ]u-op 
and stay of her family. Trained in piety from childhood, 
she had flourished under tlu apju-oving smile of her Maker — 
''first the blade, llicu the ear, and after that the full corn in 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 37 

the ear/' — and when the angel Death thrust in his sickle, 
the harvest was ripe. A childless wife, she was yet a ''Mother 
in Israel'' to the little ones of the Hock. Sunday after Suu- 
claA', for years, she was the only female teacher in the Sunday 
school ; godmother to a score of children, and the adopted 
mother of one, Mott Wehl), whose tragic murder at the age of 
10, almost killed her with grief. The silver cross which 
adorned the chancel of the old Church was the memorial of 
the unfortunate youth. Her slight figure and placid face, 
vdiieh hecame more and more serene as deafness gradually 
closed the outward portals of life, and shut up her thoughts 
v.'ith the triune God, never failed to be seen in her pew, until 
actual weakness prevented, although she could not hear the 
preacher's voice or a sound of the organ near her. She was a 
mistress such as all slaves would delight to serve, who rejoiced 
v\-ith them when they were manumitted. She was a friend, 
wlioni it is a privilege to bemoan. She was a marvel of gen- 
tleness in her family intercourse, in which her slightest wish 
was law. She died December 2, 1897, and was buried from 
the new Church by the Rector, Rev. John Gass, in Mount 
Holly Cemetery, aged 83 years, nearly the whole of which 
had been spent in the service of God and the Church. She 
left request that her name should never be taken oif the roll 
of the Ladies' Aid Society, to which she bequeathed a fund for 
the annual dues. 

A. D. 1833-1891. Mrs. Sarah Ann Ally, a cherished 
friend of Mrs. Barber, and a devout member of the Church 
in Little Rock, was confirmed in St. Paul's Chapel, ISTashville, 
Tenn., by Rt. Rev. James II. Otey, on May 12, 1850, just 
after her marriage. She was the daughter of John and 
Mary Woodhead, and was born in the city of 'New York, 
August 18, 1833. The family moved to Xew Orleans, La., 

—4 — 



38 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

by sea, in 18oU; left Kew Orleans in IS-il, and went to 
Xasliville, Tenn., where the father died in 1849. Sarah Ann 
Woodhead was married at Xashville, Tenn., to K. C. Ally in 
1850. They had eight children. Granville and Maggie, the 
two elder, were born in ^Xashville, Tenn., the other six are 
natives of Little Eock. Mr. and Mrs. Ally and the widow 
Woodhead came to Little Eock in 1860, where the mother 
died in 1862. ]\lrs. Ally has been heard to say that the first 
persons to call on her in Little Eock were Mrs. Jane Barber, 
Mrs. Louisa Brown, and Dr. William A. Cantrell. She was 
a constant member of the Ladies' Aid Society, and at her 
death, December 29, 1891, resolutions of respect and regret 
were drawn uj) by a committee appointed for the purpose. 

eTOHX WASSELL, 

SENIOR WARDEN. 

A. D. 1813-1895. As shown by the deed, recorded in 
tlie office of the circuit clerk at Little Eock, John Wassell and 
Abner S. Washburn were wardens of Christ Church in 1841. 
John Wassell was born in Kidderminster, Worcester County, 
England, February 10, 181-3, and emigrated to Cincinnati, 
Hamilton County, Ohio, alone, hoping there to join an uncle. 
Failing in this, he a])i)renticed himself to a carpenter and soon 
attained to excellence in the trade. He obtained the contract 
for a building in Grand Gulf, Miss., through advertising 
medium, and afterwards he secured in the same manner, the 
contract for building the Statehouse at Little Eock, Ark. Li 
1837 he married Miss Margaret Spotts, a resident of Louis- 
ville, Ky., though a native of Delaware, and brought his bride 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 39 

to the scene of his labor. They went to housekeeping in a 
portion of the State buikling, and remained there until it 
was finished. Since that time he was successively a house 
builder, a farmer, an editor, and a lawyer; one of the origi- 
nators of the ]\Iemphis and Little Rock Railroad; founder 
and first president of the Deaf Mute Institute, to which he 
donated several scholarships ; first president of the Home 
Water Company; was af)pointed mayor of the city by Presi- 
dent Andrew Johnson, U. S. A., during the reconstruction, 
and was vice president of the First National Bank. In a 
v^ord, Mr. Wassell was recognized by his fellow-citizens as 
a philanthropist as well as an expert financier. Back of these 
benevolent characteristics was tlie chief motive power — his 
allegiance to the Church, from which his loyalty never waned. 
He was a liberal member of the first Vestry of Christ Epis- 
copal Church, contributing to the maintenance of the Church 
and. the clergy, and so continued until the time of his death, 
July 29, 1881. When the first Church was burned he was 
greatly interested in the building of another on the same site. 
He donated the stone water table that surmounted the stone 
foundation. He died before it was finished, January 29, 
1881, and was buried from the Chapel, built for temporary 
use on the lot adjoining. The Rev. T. C. Tupper, who was 
at that time in charge, ofiiciated at his funeral. He was 68 
years old when he died, and left a comfortable maintenance 
for his widow and children. Mrs. Wassell donated the 
costly stained glass window in the northeast corner of the new 
Church, to his memory. It represents the three ]\Iarys at 
the sepulchre seeking their Lord, and their interview with 
the angels. Mrs. Wassell was a faithful helpmeet and 
devoted Christian, tenderly beloved by her children and 
friends. In the south side of the chancel of the new Church, 



40 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

a Credence Table has been erected to her memorv. It is 
made of beautifully carved brass, with an open circular center, 
filled with the mysterious monogram of the cross, being the 
initial Greek letters of the name of Christ (i. e., X for Ch. 
and P for r.) A cross of brass, encircled with a crown sur- 
inounts this monogram and a rim of brass encases a plane of 
walnut wood, on which the vessels of the Holy Eucharist rest 
during the Ante-Communion ser\'ice. On this plane is a plate 
of brass inscribed Avith these words : 

To the service of God, 

And in memory of our Mother, 

Margaret Wassell, 

Entered into rest September 6, 1895. 

The children of John Wassell and Margaret Spotts, his 
wife, who survive them, are : 

1. Rehecca E., wife of William ]\r. Randolph, a prom- 
inent attorney of Memphis, Tenn. 

2. Albert Wassell, who married Miss Leona McAlmont^ 
daughter of Dr. Corydon McAlmont. ' 

3. Samuel S. Wassell, who married Miss Elizabeth 
McConaughey, daughter of J. W. ]\rcConaugliey. 

4. Ilerhert Wassell, unmarried. 

Tlie children of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph are Mrs. Laura 
Randolph Norton; George Randolph, who married Miss 
Birdie Randolph, of Xew York ; Edward Randolph, who mar- 
ried :Miss Julia Ralbach, of New York; Amy Randolph, un- 
married, and Wassell Randolph, student at Knoxville, Tenn. 

The children of "^fr. and Mrs. Albert Wassell are Ruth 
TIclcii. Cni-ydou AlcAliiK.iit, and John Randolph. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 41 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Wasseli are 
Francis John, James Bracev (deceased), Samuel ]\IcCon- 
aughey, and Herbert I^ynn, all minors. 

Note — It has been in vain that the annalist has sought in various channels for 
accounts of AVmer S. Washburn, who served as Junior Warden with Mr. John Was- 
seli. He removed from Little Rock at an early date and no record of him can be 
traced. Charles Rapley was a prominent citizen here, alarere owner in real estate, 
but no answei's were obtained to several letters of inquiry addressed to his children. 
Of Dr. J. P. Norman nothing has been obtained, except the inscription found on his 
wife's tomb, which still may be seen in the yard of the Peabody School. It is this: 
"Sarah H. Samuel, wife of J. P. Norman, Vwm April 13, 1,H18; died Augvist 28, 1840. 
She believed that her God would be merciful." Of D.Butler and William Prather 
no reliable information has been obtained. 



PIOX. DAXIEL RIXGO. 

A. D. 1828-1854. Hon. Daniel lllncjo was Senior 
Warden of ( 'hrist Church in 1849^ as shown by the record 
of the purchase of an additional lot, lying adjacent to the 
three already owned by the Church : 

"Joshua F. Green and wife to Daniel Kingo and John 
Wasseli, Wardens of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dated 
May 1, 18-1:9. Consideratiou, $2.>(). Lot 1, block 29, city 
of Little Eock." 

Daniel Eingo, a native of Kentucky, born in 1800, was 
identified with the history of Arkansas at an early date. He 
is mentioned in the archives of the State as clerk of the Ter- 
ritorial Legislature, which was in session in October, 1828, 
having been a resident of the county he represented, Clark, 
since 1825, where he was postmaster. Before that time, from 
1820 to 1836, Avhen Arkansas was admitted into the Laiion, 
he practiced law.* He was then elected Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court, and in 1849 was appointed United States 
District Judge, which position he held until the War of Seces- 
sion displaced the civil authorities. He married Miss Mary 



*See Hempstead's History of Arkansas. 



42 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Cocke, of K(nit.ucky. Her sister became the wife of Hon. 
Frederick W. Trai^iiall, who was the law partner of John W. 
Cocke (as well as brother-in-law). These gentlemen, also 
from Kentncky, were brilliant lights in the legal galaxy, and 
were regular attendants of the Episcopal Church. Judge 
Ringo was a grav(^, stately man, who had a lovely wife and 
several children. These were: 

J. Piohert Watl-ins, or "Wat," as he was familiarly 
called. He enlisted as a Confederate soldier and died in a 
hosj)ital during the war. 

■2. Daniel, Jr., associated himself with a young man, 
John Xewbern, in the first literary enterprise of the city. The 
Arl.-diisas Magazine was issued by them in 1854, and lived a 
sliort wliilc. Ydung Uingo exchanged "the pen for the sword, 
Avas wounded in an engagement in Virginia and also died in 
a hospital. 

3. Marl/ Frances, a beautiful young woman, on the 
evo of licr nujitials with ]\Ir. Harrison, died suddenly, and the 
broken hearted mother soon followed her. Judge Eingo sur- 
vived all these family shocks, but fell at last, like a well sea- 
soned oak, leaving two orphans, Frank and Lily (fourth and 
fifth). Frank also died not numy years afterwards and Lily 
died unmarried in 1800, in San Antonio. The entire family 
has thus passed away. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 43 



I J OX. FKEDERICK W. TRAP:N^ALL. 

Hon. F rede rich IF. TnipnaU, whose name is on the first 
list of Vestrymen of Christ C^hurch, and who stands among 
the first in the h'st of distinguished lawyers of the Little Rock 
bar, married Miss Frances Cocke, the sister of his law partner, 
John W. Cocke. They owned and occui^ied the spacious, 
colonial brick residence, at the head of Commerce street, on 
Fifth, which then stood alone in the center of the block, sur- 
rounded by trees of native growth and sloping greensward. 
They had one daughter, JMary, who survived both her parents 
and died an orphan at 13 years of age. Ben. C. Trap- 
nail, brother of F. W. Trapnall, was unmarried. Philip 
l^rapnall, younger brother of Frederick, became a junior 
partner of the firm of Tra2)nall «!S: CVcke, and married Sallie, 
eldest daughter of Colonel Sandy Faulkner, who was the 
acknoAvledged beauty and belle of the city. Bettie, the second 
daughter, became the first wife of Major John C. Peay, who 
served in the Mexican War, as well as later in the Civil War as 
quartermaster. Mattie, the third daughter, married Mr. Buch- 
anan. The two oldest sons of Colonel Faulkner have passed 
away, as w*ell as the children of his old age, Philip and Minnie. 
All have paid the debt of nature, and what once formed the 
most hospitable circle anywhere to be found, is remembered 
as a flash of brilliant sunshine, extinguished in gloom. 



44 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



JOHN IIUTT. 

A. D. 1 835-1 878. John Ilutt, Judge of the City Court 
of Little Rock, in the then Territory of Arkansas, 1835, was 
a member of the first Vestry of the first Episcopal Church, 
and his name appears often on the list of subscribers to the 
building. He was elected treasurer of the State of Arkan- 
sas in 1S38, and again in 1843. He was the son of William 
Spence Hutt, Sr., and Constance Eugenie Etienne Yillard, 
his wife, who, with her family, had been exiled from Paris, 
Erance, at the time of the French Revolution. Judge Hutt 
and Peter T. Crutchfield, receiver of public moneys at Little 
Rock for many years, married sisters. Misses Harriet and 
Elizabeth Field, daughters of William Field. John Hutt, 
William and Andre were brothers. William Hutt married 
Elizabeth Findley and Andre Hutt married Erancissa Gaines, 
widow of Benjamin Linebeangh, and niece of Peter Crutch- 
field. Her two daughters by her first marriage were Ellen, 
who dietl in early womanh.ood, deeply lamented, and Laura, 
who married Captain Lucian B. Xash, now of Spokane, Wash. 
Her other children arc rhe ordy persons left of the name of 
Jfntt in Little Rock. These are William S. Hutt and Mollie, 
wife of Edward C. Xewton. Her grand children, all bap- 
tized members of the Episcopal Church, are Edward Sevier> 
Andre Hutt, Frankie (Mrs. William Frederick Bracy) Mary 
Lizzie and Cornell Randol])h. The accompanying tribute to 
]\[rs. Elizal)eth A. Crutchfield, died December 11, 1878, who 
was a devoted Church member, will be read with interest for 
iier sake, as well as for that of the distinguished writer. Chief 
-Instice Elbert H. English, and the wife of his youth, Julia 
I'isher : , ' i 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 45 

TliliUTK OF liESPECT. 

MRS. ELIZAIJETII A. CRUTCIIFIELD. 

The justly merited tribute to tlie memory of the himented 
Mrs. Savage, published a few days since, reminded me that 
no one had written an obituary of her contemporary, the most 
estimable lady whose name heads this article. 

Elizabeth Ann Field first saw the light on the 29th of 
July, IS 13, in Dinwiddie County, Va. She was of a good 
family, and a niece of General Winlield Scott, famous as a 
militarv commander in the American wars. Like the daugh- 
ters of all of the \"irginians of means, she was well educated, 
and grew to womanhood accomplished and beautiful. In 
1833, she came to Little llock, then a small village, clustered 
about the point of rock which juts into the Arkansas river, 
and from which the town took its name. It was called by the 
early navigators of the river Little Rock to distinguish it from 
Big Rock, a mile or more above. Just below the point of 
rock, the early keel adventurers landed their trading boats 
and carried on a commerce with the Quapaw Indians, then 
monarchs of the forest and the game. In after years it became 
and is now known as the steamboat landing. There are but 
few persons living now who remember Miss Field when she 
first came to Little Rock, and she was for a time the belle of 
the village. She was one of its early roses. How many, 
alike beautiful in tlie spring time, summer and even autumn 
of life, like her have bloomed and faded ! She intermarried 
with Peter Tinslcy Crutchfield, Esquire, at the residence of 
Major Prior, Spring Hill, Hempstead County, in 1834. 
Major Prior, a Red River planter, and fine specimen of the 
old Virginia gentleman, was a friend and acquaintance of 
Miss Field and her parents, and invited her to be married at 
his house. Major Crutchfield, as he was afterward called, 
was then a young member of the territorial bar, and became 
ir after years a prominent lawyer here and on the circuit. Lie, 
with Pike. Ashley, Ringo, Fowler. Walker. Royston and 
others, pioneer lawyers, strong men and learned in the old 
books (Do (^-)de fledu'linas) swam the bnvons, and at nio'ht 



46 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

spread tlu'ir blankets under the shelter of the oaks and read 
tlieir destinies among the stars. Major Crutchfiehl filled 
several places of pnblie trnst, and was noted for his tidelity of 
character. lie was receiver of public moneys for the United 
States for some years before, and at the time of the outburst 
of the Civil War between the States ; and when armed soldiers 
went, under a military order, to seize the j)ublic moneys in his 
keeping, though a Southern man, he refused to surrender 
them, believing it to be his duty to preserve them, and he stood 
fearlessly guarding them until they were forced from him by 
superior numbers. He died not long after. Mrs. Crutch- 
field, at the time of the death of her husband, was well pre- 
served and a line looking woman, but remained a Avidow, 
devoted to his memory, until liev own sudden death, wdiich 
occurred December 11, 1878, at the family homestead. She 
raised but one child, a daughter, now" Mrs. Burrow. Many 
of the old citizens v/ill remember the brilliant wedding of Miss 
.luliet Crutchfield, beautiful and accomplished like her 
mother, and General Xapoleon B. Burrow, then the oily- 
tongued orator of Arkansas, and the peer of Yancey, of Ala- 
bama — now. having abandoned very much public life, he 
holds the |)low as it turns to the sun the solemn soil. All 
i-emember the hospitality of the Crutchiield mansion, and the 
pleasant, graceful and lady-like manner in which its mistress 
presided. Xow she has followed her husband to the tomb, 
and be it hoped to the better land, and others occupy the old 
homestead. IVIy acquaintance commenced with Mrs. C^-utch- 
field, at the ])oint of rock, on a Sabbath morning early in June, 
1844. ^ 'Fhe river was at its flood, the June rise ujwn the 
rain rise, and a group were there assembled looking at the 
great cottonwoods that had been rifted from the shores and 
were floating on the foaming tide. jNfrs. Crutchfield was 
there, holding Juliet, a little girl, by the hand. The child 
cast a flower on the flood, and bade it take her compliments to 
tlie sea. The flower may never have reached the sea, but the 
grou]) of spectators Avere on another stream, which has borne 
most of them to another, a deeper and a wider sea — a shoreless 
sea ! 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 47 

]\Iary Melbourne, the canarv-tliroated songstress, after- 
ward wife of Senator Borland, was there, and the strings of 
her harp have been for years broken and her sweet tones 
hushed in the silence of the tomb. Chief Justice Ringo and 
wife, kSani li. Hempstead, a prominent lawyer, and wife; 
Charles P. Bertrand and Thomas D. Merrick, who were of 
the group, all sleep. One iras aniunrj them, (who need not be 
named) Avhose bright black eyes, bewitching face, and merry, 
ringing laugh, all who survive will remember, for none who 
knew can forget her. She rests near hei' friend and neighbor, 
]\Irs. ( 'rutchfield. Mrs. Dr. Adams (sister of William and 
Ebenezer Cummins) still lives and looks but little changed. 
She is one of the roses that defies the winters, and in this 
resi)ect is like Mrs. Crutchfield, who M'as unusually well pre- 
served to the time of her death. .Tohn Karns and Dr. Dodge 
were of the group, and appear now about as they did then, 
and look like they might live as long as the Wandering Jew. 
So was Wm. B. Wait, then a mature man, and yet one of our 
most active and reliable business men. 

Peace to the memory of our de]iarted friend, INfrs. 
( 'rutchlield, and may roses bloom upon her tomb ! 

E. H. E. 



JOHN ADAMSOX, SR. 

A. D. 1836-1876. John Adamson, Sr., mentioned in 
the list of iirst Vestry of Christ (liurch, married Rebecca 
Prather in ^Montgomery County, Md., and came to Arkansas 
in 1886. ]Ie had served as an officer in the War of the Revo- 
lution. He died ii! Little Rock, Ark., July 10, 1861. 
]\Iention is made of him in the diaries of Bishop Otey. 

WlUia7n Adainson, son of John Adamson and Rebecca 
Prather, his wife, was born in ]\[aryland, and came to Little 
Rock with his father in 1S;}6, and mai-ried Louisa Petit, Sep- 
tomltcr 16, IS.^l. Tfe served in tlio AFexican War. 



48 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

John Adamson, son of William Adamson and Louisa 
Petit, his wife, was born in Little Eock, Ark., ]Sroveml)er 19, 
1852, and married Bettie Hendren, of Pine Bluff, Ark., JSTo- 
vember 2, 1871. 

William Custis Adamson, son of John Adamson (2d) 
and Bettie Hendren, his wife, was born at Willowdale, Ark., 
Pebruarj 11, 1873. L'nmarried. 

Joh7i Selden Adamson, son of John Adamson (2d) and 
Bettie Hendren, his wife, was born at Willowdale, Ark., 
January 17, 1876. '^■' 

NICHOLAS PEAY. 

A. D. 1829. Among' the very earliest citizens of Little 
Pock was Nicholas Peay. He was one of eleven children. 
Two of his brothers are mentioned as members of the House 
of Commons from Rockingham County, in the General 
Assembly of North Carolina, George Peay, in the years 1793, 
1791, and 1795, and John Peay in 1797. Nicholas Peay 
went to Kentucky and there married Miss Juliet Neill. From 
there he came to Arkansas with his family in 1825 and 
became proprietor of the first liotel in the city of Little Eock. 
Their children were eleven in number. Those who survived 
to adult age were: 

L Mary Peai/. who married William F. Pope, relative 
and i)ri\'ate secretary of Governor John Pope, w^ho was the 
third governor of the Territory of Arkansas in 1829, and the 
brother-in-law of John Quincey Adams, president of LTnited 
States; Willaim F. Poj.e was the author of "Earlij Days in 

n^JJ^l^ cqofle<. the list of mpmhers r,f the first Vestrv of Christ Church. Bishop 
Otey s diary will supply such information as may be lacking. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 49 

Arkansas." The cliilclren of ]Marv Poay and Win. F. Pope, 
live ill number, all died in infancy. 

2. Gordon Neill Peay, avIio married Sue Nelson Crease, 
sixth daughter of John H. and Jane Xelson Crease, had Jane 
Feay, who married W. \V. Morrison. Thev had Gordon, 
William, Jane, Xorman Crease, C^aroline, Xelson, and Mary 
Morrison ; Mary Peay, who married W. B. Worthen, and had 
Sue, George, Elizabeth, Louisa, and Mary Worthen. Eliza- 
beth Peay married Antoine Bohlinger, and had Fred, ISTeill, 
Elizabeth, Eaura Lewis, Mary Sue, and Caroline Bohlinger. 
Nicholas Peay married Leicester Hornibrook, and had James, 
Leicester, Elizabeth, and Nicholas Peay. Gordon N. Peay 
married Zilla Cole, and had Gordon and Helen Peay. 
Caroline Peyton Peay, unmarried. 

3. JoJin Coleman Peay, who married first, Bettie, 
second daughter of Colonel Sandy Faulkner, and last, Mar- 
garet Elizabeth Peyburn, third daughter of Samuel W. Rey- 
burn. They had Reyburn, ^Yilliam, Ashley, Juliet Mildred 
(died in early womanhood), and John Coleman Peay. Major 
Peay died August 29, 1898, deeply lamented by relatives and 
friends. 

4. William Nicholas Peay, who married Nannie Nantz, 
orphan niece of Mrs. Frederick AV. Trapnall, and had one 
daughter, Katie. Both deceased, but the daughter survives. 

5. Juliet Elizahetlh Peay, who married first. Dr. Wil- 
liam Hammond, and had Fanny G. (Mrs. Jesse Blocker), 
xVlice P., and William H. Hammond, and second, William 
Easley, and had one daughter, Sue C. (Mrs. Barclay), one 
grandson, Hugh. William Blocher is also a grandson. 

0. Sophronia Peay, who married Dr. George Golder, 
deceased. Their children are Mary Alice Golder and Hen- 



50 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

riotta Viola Gokler, who married June C. Browne, manager 
of Iron ]\I(»untain Telegraph Company. 

The family of Mr. Samnel W. JReybiirn were also devoted 
Chnroh members of the first Church. 

J. William Eeyburn. the eldest son, married Mary 
Fisher, who was the sister of Jnlia Fisher, first wife of CUiief 
Justice Elbert IT. English. They had one son, Elbert Wood- 
ward, who died. 

Mrs. Eeyburn after\vards became the wife of J. V. Zim- 
merman, and had three children. Two are living — Mrs. Julia 
liced and Jesse F. Zimmerman. 

2. Joseph 1T\ Rcyhurn married Arkansas Lawson. 
Their children are Mrs. Caroline (Reyburn) Dutton, Mrs. 
Frances (Reyburn) Van Etten, Miss ISTellie Reyburn, and 
Samuel Woodward Reyburn. 

?>. Cordelia ir<7^e/- married William Scull. Children: 
Reylmrn (deceased), Samuel Christian, Zoe de Villemont, 
William Riddle, and Melanie. 

4. ]\Ianj Jane, or "Jamie," who married Dr. Benj. 
Scull, a distinguished musician, and for a long time organist 
of Christ Church. I'lieir only daughter, Eleanor Therese, or 
"iSTona," married William Joseph Dunklin. They had 
Jamie Barnes, Anderson, Prudilla, and Joseph Dibrell. Jamie 
Barnes married George Coit Davis, of Austin, Chicago, 111. 
The only son of Dr. and Mrs. Benj. Scull is Miles Scull, 
imman'icd. 

5. Margaret Elizaheth, wlio married John Coleman 
I'cay. I\vo younger sisters, Annie and Fanny Reyburn, died 
in early womanluxxl. 

The siirviviug nifuilKTs of these families are steadfast in 
tlK'ir devotion to the Church, and their names should, and will 
be, ])erjx"tuated in the annals of the Church. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 51 



WILLIAM B. WAIT. 

This iiaine, so familiar to the members of the congrega- 
tion of Christ Church, as the guardian of her financial interest 
from the time of Bishop Otey's first visitation till very nearly 
the time of his death, must have full space here as a trusted 
Church ofiicial and highly esteemed citizen. From "Tlie 
Encyclopedia of tJie New West/' published by the United 
States Biographical Publishing Company, at Marshall, Texas, 
in 1881, is quoted the subjoined accurate sketch of Mr. Wait's 
life: 

A. D. 1808. WilUam B. Wait was born in Groton, 
Mass., January 10, 1808. His father, Levi Wait, a Scotch- 
man, a farmer, a Mason, and an eventempered kind of man, 
moved to Albany, X. Y., in 1817, and died there in 1822. 
Mr. Wait's mother was Elizabeth Jones, born at Acton, Mass. 
Her mother was married three times. First to CajDtain Isaac 
Davis, who was the first ofticer killed in the Revolution, near 
Concord Bridge, Mass., who is named in one of Webster's 
orations, delivered at Acton, on the occasion of the erection of 
the monument at that place. 

A. D. 1881. ]\Ir. Wait's mother raised eight children, 
of wdiom the subject of this sketch is the oldest, and six are 
living. (1881.) There has never been a stain or scandal 
heard of any one of these children, and there is not an office- 
holder among all the kith or kin. 

A. D. 1824. IMr. Wait, leaving his home in Albany in 
1824, went to Boston and remained five years, as a clerk, at 
$75 a year and his board, the first four years, and $100 for 
the last year, in a grocery store. 



52 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

A. D. 1829. In July, lS:>y, he left Boston and went to 
Cincinnati to better his prospects. lie was in and about Cin- 
cinnati and Louisville two years, as a clerk in a store and on 
steamboats. Up to this time he had saved no money. After 
reaching Cincinnati and paying his second week's board in 
advance, he had 124^ cents left, and has never inherited any- 
thing since. 

A. D. 1830-1843. On the 28th of December, 1830, he 
landed in Arkansas, and, being previously engaged, took the 
position of clerk in the store of Frederick ^STotrebe, a general 
trader at Arkansas Post. He remained with him till May, 
1834, then went to Little Rock and went into business with 
Edward Dunn, under the firm name of Wait & Dunn, general 
traders. Mr. Dunn dying in 183G, Mr. Wait continued the 
business until 1838, when he went back to Arkansas Post, and 
went into business with Charles F. Xotrebe, under the firm 
name of Xotrebe & Wait, successors of Frederick N^otrebe. 
lie remained there till tlie fall of 1843, when (Mr. :NTotrebe 
liaving died in 1841) he brought the stock to Little Rock in 
September, 1843. From that time till 1854 he was actively 
engaged in selling goods, and all kinds of mercantile trans- 
actions. 

A. D. 1854 1861. In February, 1854, he was burned 
out, and, from that time, went into the collection and exchange 
business, and so continued in that business until 1801, when 
the Civil War caused him to close np all business, as near as 
he could. During the war he remained in Little Eock with 
his family all the time, taking no part in it, except what is 
mentioned furtlioi- on. Since the Avar Mr. Wait has been 
retired, ddiug no regular business, beyond taking care of his 
city and country real estate and other ]n'0])erty. During the 
-ar liis princii)al business was trying to take care of what he 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 53 

had. For about a year prior to General Steele's takinii; pos- 
session of Little lioek, lie was acting for Edward Cross, deposi- 
tary of the Confederate States, and handled and paid out 
$;5;;, 000,000. 

A. D. 1S43-1863. :Mr. Wait^s practice through life has 
been to deal fairly- with everybody. With the exception of 
five 3'ears at the Arkansas Post, he endeavored to do a cash 
business in selling goods. He never had trouble in buying 
goods on a credit from the beginning to the end of his mer- 
cantile career. From 1843 to 1854 he never sued but one 
man on a bill of goods sold. There was never a judgment 
rendered against him in any court in the State on an action 
of debt. Fie always paid his bills. Looking on all the busi- 
ness he has handled — his long and varied business career — 
this is a remarkable feature in his history. Xor was he ever 
forced into chancery that he did not beat the plaintiff. His 
note was never protested for nonpayment. He has not, as a 
rule, invested in public or general enterprises. He is presi- 
dent of the Little Rock Building Association, numbers three 
and four ; is director and vice president of the Merchants' 
l^ational Bank, of Little Rock, and was among the first direc- 
tors of the Cairo and F^ulton Railroad, and treasurer of that 
company from its organization till 1803, and was a director 
of the Bank of the State of Arkansas from its organization till 
L838. Fie never belonged to any secret society or military 
company. He seldom kept more than one clerk ; kept his 
own books; never hired a bookkeeper, and his success is to be 
lai-ge!y attributed to his handling his money himself, and to 
tlie close attention paid to his own business. He was never 
ashamed to sweep out his store, or to do anything necessary 
about his establishment. Expenses and bad debts did not 
swallow up his profits. This record is valuable as suggesting 

—5— 



54 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

the pathway to tinancial success. Our voung readers who 
would be wise, wall be admonished hy the perusal of these 
statements. 

A. D. 1838-1869. Though :\lr. Wait has been a Demo- 
crat, he has occasionally voted for candidates on the other 
side. lie was against secession, but when his State went out 
he determined to remain at home and operate with the Con- 
federacy. For many years prior to IS 03 he served as an 
alderman in Little liock. He has been twice married. His 
first wdfe, to whom he was married in Little Rock, December 
11, 1838, died there December 31, 1863. Her name was 
Martha Lavinia Reardon, sister of John Reardon, the book- 
sdler at Little Rock. She was born in Easton, Md., in 1800, 
the daughter of Lambert Reardon, a merchant in Maryland, 
first, and afterward in Little Rock. He was a man universally 
respected for his honest and correct character and gentle- 
manly manners, and was of Irish descent. By this marriage 
Mr. Wait had four chihlren, only one of whom is living, viz: 
Charles Edmoud, born in Little Rock, jSTovember 3, 1849; 
graduated at the University of Virginia ; married in August, 
1879, Miss Leila Reasley, of Petersburg, Va., and by her had 
one child, William Beasley Wait, December 24, 1880. 
Charles is professor of chemistry and metallurgv and manager 
of the school of mines at Rolla, J\Io., a rising man, of whom 
any father might be proud.* Mr. Wait's second marriage, 
which occurred at Pittsburg, Pa., May 20, 1867, was with 
Mrs. Fannie Fast in Lyler, widow of William H. Tyler, lieu- 
tenant in the Fnitcd States armv. She was born and educated 



. *w '"• Charles E. Wait lost his wife and was married a second time to Miss Har- 
riet Morrison. By this marriage are two children. Chas. E. Wait, Jr., and Fanny. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 55 

in Alabama. By this marriage Mr. Wait has one child, Kobert 
Eastin, born at Pittsburg, Pa., July 24, 1869.* 

Mrs. Wait belongs to the Episcopal Church. She is a 
sister of Mrs. W. W. Spotswood, formerly of the United States 
navy. Her sister, Matilda, was the wife of Colonel Alexander 
Montgomery, of the United States army. Mrs. Eannie Wait's 
father, Thomas Eastin, edited the first newspaper published 
at Key W>st, Florida. He was on General Jackson's staff 
al the battle of ISTew Orleans ; was navy agent at Pensacola, 
under Van Buren's administration^ and died in Florida in 
1863. His wife (Mrs. Wait's mother) was Lucinda Gayle, 
sister of Governor John Gayle, of Alabama. She died at 
Mobile, Ala., in 1870. 

Mrs. Wait's first liusl)and, William H. Tyler, a relation 
of President Tyler, graduated at West Point. Her sister, 
Helen, is the wife of R. P. Pulliam, a lawyer at Fort Smith. 
Her sister, Lucinda, died the wife of Dr. Rossell, of the 
United States army. She left a son, William Trent Rossell, 
a graduate of West Point, who now belongs to the corps of 
civil engineers of the United States army. One of Mrs. 
Wait's cousins, Miss Mary Eastin, presided in the White 
House during part of General Jackson's administration, and 
was married there to Lucius J. Polk, the first marriage, it is 
believed, that ever occurred in the White House. Mr. Wait 
owns the finest residence in the State of Arkansas, f built 
by Alexander McDonald, ex-United States Senator, at a 
cost of $40,000. He owns and rents several storehouses, 
several blocks and lots in town, a small stock in the Merchants' 
National Bank, has $17,000 stock in the two Little Rock 



*Robert Eastin Wait married Miss Isahelle Evans Smart, daughter of Rev. Rich- 
ard Davis Smart, a distinguished divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They 
have one daughter, Alice St. Clair Wait. 

fNow owned and occupied by Colonel Thomas W. Newton and family. 



5(i THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

J3iiikliiig Associations, and owns 4,000 or 5,000 acres of land 
in Lincoln, Arkansas, Lonoke, Clark, and Pulaski counties. 

His height is 5 feet 4 inches; weight, 125 pounds; eyes, 
blue and of very amiable expression. 

He has been treasurer of the Episcopal Church of Little 
Eock for about thirty years, since 1843, and was chairman 
of the street committee in the city for several years before 
the war. 

.M]'. Wait was hrst vice president of the First JSTational 
Bank in this city. Upon his resignation, at the meeting of 
the board of directors, the following resolutions were adopted : 

Resolved, That although we cannot expect our words 
to add to the honorable reputation of a man who commenced 
active business in this city more than half a century ago, and 
has been known of all men as a gentleman of business integ- 
rity, whose entire career has been without spot or blemish, yet 
we would violate our feelings and be recreant to our duty if 
we permitted our fellow-director, William B. Wait, to retire 
from the first vice presidency of this First Xational Bank 
of Little Rock, Ark., without some official acknowledgment 
(it our admiration for his many excellencies, 

Jie.solred, That we desire to bear cheerful testimony to 
the fact that during our years of association with William B. 
Wait, his n])rightness of action, his steadfastness of purpose 
and never failing kindness of consideration of all with whom 
he has ])een associated fills each of us with a sincere admira- 
tion foi- liiiii that will be as lasting as our memories. 

Jietiolced, That X. Kupferle, P. K. Roots, and M. M. 
Colin be ap])ointed a committee to present this expression of 
sf ntiments to Mr. Wait in such a manner and with such a 
sonvchiir as their tastes may dictate. 

The chiklrcn of ^Mr. Wni. B. Wait now living are: 

L Charles luhnond, of Knoxvilie, Tenn., who married 
tiiNf Lcihi iJcash-y, and had one daughter, Fanny. Both 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 57 

luother and child dietl. Second wife was Harriet Murrisuii, 
of ^"irginia, who had one son, Charles Edniond, Jr. 

2. Robert Eastin, who married Isabelle Evans Smart, 
danghter of Rev. Dr. liichard Davis Smart, of St. Louis 
Methodist Conference, and Julia Isabelle Evans, his first 
wife. A daughter, Alice St. Clair, was l)orn to them. 



WILLIAM S. EULTON. 

A. D. 1835-1844. ^yUnam S. Fulton, whose name 
heads the list of subscribers to the first Episcopal Church, in 
Little Rock (coming after the names of the collectors. Rev. 
Dr. Yeager, John II. Crease, Wm. C. Scott, and Jos. Grubb), 
served as fourth governor of the Territory of Arkansas in 
1835. He was afterwards elected for the short term to the 
United States Senate in 1836, and died in 1844. His family 
attended the services of the Church. His father was Judge 
David Fulton, of Baltimore, Md., who married Miss Elizabeth 
Savin. Two sons and a daughter of this marriage were well- 
known citizens here, viz : 

1. Hon. Wm. Savin F niton, who married ^fatilda 
ISTowdand. 

2. Dr. John Fulton, who married C^aroline Scull. 

3. Jane Fulton who married, first, Mr. Shall, and 
second. Dr. Holt. 

The children of ex-Governor Eulton and ^Litilda Xow- 
land, his wife, were : 

Elizaheth Fu.lton, who married Moorhead Wright, and 
had William Eulton, Elizabeth Moorhead, Imogene, Amelia, 
and Isaac Wright. 

William Fulton Wi-i<ilit. married Louisa Watkins, eldest 



58 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

dangliter of Chief Justice Geo. (J. Watkiiis and Mary, daugh- 
ter of John H. and Jane P. Crease. Their children are Moor- 
head (Watkins, died), Mary and Louisa Wright. 

May Wright married S. Frencli Hoge, of Kentucky, and 
Jiad Virginia Briggs, William Fulton, and Charles Eugene 
Wright. 

Elizaheth Moorlicad married Dr. Putnam Dickinson, and 
]jad Elise and Wright (both died), Putnam, Imogene, and 
Auuette J)ickinson. 

Imogene married Ambrose Hundley Sevier, and had 
]\laude, Easter (died), Ambrose Hundley, Amelie, Imogene 
(died), Juliet Sevier. 

Ainelle married Dean Adams, and had one sou, John D. 
Adams. 

Isaac died, a minor. 

Sophia Fulton married, first, James M. Curran, a distin- 
guished young la\vyer, and had William S., Matilda F., and 
Alice -liniova ( 'urran, and, second, Chief Justice Geo. C. 
Watkins, and had Maria Louise, Elizabeth Wright (died), 
Georgie Claiborne, and Ida Watkins. 

William S. Curran married Jennie Goodfellow, and had 
James Moore and Ilattie Curran. 

Matilda F. married Francis Johnson, and had Alice, 
Ada May, and Pobert W. Johnson. 

Mirr married Celsus P. Perrie, and have one daughter, 
^lay ( "nn-an Perrie. 

Mice Jimora married Frederick Elias Conway, and liad 
Frederick Nelson, May Fulton, Alice Elise, James Curran, 
and Clai])orne Watkins Conway. 

Marin Louise mai'i-ied Wni. ,1. Tnrn(>r, and had George 
Watkins (died), William d., and Helen A. Turner. 



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Georgie Claiborne married Pope Yeatman; no children. 
Ida married Marshall Shirk ; they have one daughter, 
Anne Bell Shirk. 

In the north wall of the new Church is a window with 
six lifesize figures representing Dorcas, ^Svho was full of good 
works and almsdeeds, which slie did," and inscribed with 
these words : 

Sacred to the memory of Sophia Watkins. 
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth. 

This window was donated by the two younger daughters 
of the deceased, Georgie and Ida. 

Idd Fulton, youngest daughter of ex-Governor Fulton, 
married William Hunter, aud had two children. All the 
family are dead. 

2. Dr. John Fid ton removed from Little Rock at an 
early date. 

3. Jane Fulton, sister of William Savin and Dr. John 
Fulton, married, first, Mr. Shall, and had three children — 
David Fulton Shall, who married ^lary Stout, and had one 
daughter, Mary Lizzie (parents and daughter, all dead) ; 
j\largaret Ann, who married James Galloway, and had several 
children ; only one of the name, David Fulton Shall Galloway, 
wlio married ]\lay Wesson, represents the family in this 
parish; Elizabeth Savin Shall, lives unmarried in this city. 
Jane Fulton's second husband was Dr. Holt, surgeon of the 
expedition sent out by the government under command of 
('ai)tain B. L. E. Bonneville, IT. S. A., to make a reconnois- 
sance of the plain.* Xo children. 

The following biograjihy of James Ilervey Otey, whose 
name is a household word in Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, 



*See Early Days in Atkansas, by Wm. F. Pope, p. 152. 



6U 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



Mississippi, and Florida, and his pocket diaries, which have 
been transcribed, will be read with especial interest, as they 
develop the life of the Church and its founders : 



RT. EEV. JAMES HERVEY OTEY, D. D. 

A. D. 1800. The Bt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D. D., 
the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the 
Diocese of Tennessee, was born on the 27th of January, 1800, 
near the Peaks of Otter, in Bedford County, Va. He was 
a great lover of mountain scenery and cherished a special affec- 
tion for his native Peaks. He had, after he became a Bishop, 
an oil painting of them executed and presented by a friend, a 
local artist. His eyes sometimes filled with tears as he gazed 
ujxtn this picture and thought of all the scenes which it re- 
c;dk'd. Here he grew up on his father's farm and rendered 
some assistance in its work. But he early exhibited an inclin- 
ation for study. He was sent to what was generally termed 
an "old field" school ; but some of those neighborhood insti- 
tutions were very good ones. Afterwards he entered the 
Academy at jSTew London, in the same county, which has gen- 
(■i-;illy Ik'cii a place of education of an excellent grade from 
that day to the ])resent. There he made preparation for 
college and was matriculated in the University of Ts'orth 
( 'ai-oliiia in his sixteenth year. He was well grown and 
athletic and was fond of outdoor sports, and especially of 
angling, for which he retained his love all his life, and was 
a great admirer of Sir Tsaak Walton. He was also attached 
to his violin, on which he became quite an expert performer. 
Thus he had an abundance of recreation, though, during his 
vacations, he cheerfully assisted his parents. He gave up his 
violin, but his son. Mercer, still has it. 




RT. REV. JAMES HERVEY OTEY. D. D., LL. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 61 

LINEAGE. 

Bisliop Otey was one of the younger of twelve sons and 
daughters of Isaac Otey and Elizabeth Mathews. "' Isaac Otey 
was a well-to-do farmer, of sterling qualities of mind and 
heart, and a stern regard for moral principle, which he was 
careful to instil into his children. He was the representative 
of his people in the Legislature of Virginia for about thirty 
years, and as a State Senator, was so attentive to all appro- 
priations of the public treasure that he was called ''the Cer- 
berus of the Treasury." His wife was of a high and strong 
character also, and his worthy helpmeet. 

A. D. 1601-1613. Isaac was the son of John Otey and 
Mary Hopkins. The Oteys were, on both sides, of good old 
English stock and settled first in Xcw Kent County. John 
Otey was a valiant soldier in the war of '7G. There is a 
credited tradition that he, when the British had obtained pos- 
session of the Pamunky River, raised a company at his ow^i 
expense and captured one of their boats. The Hopkinses go 
l)ack to Sir John Fetters, Knight, member of the British Par- 
liament for jSTorwich, A. D. 1601 and IGO-t-lOll, benefactor 
of Norwich Cathedral and subscriber of £25 (two shares) to 
the Colony of Virginia, of which he was one of the founders. 
He died April 19, Kn.'J. 

A. D. 1840. Colonel Thomas Sellers, one of his descen- 
dants, settled in Virginia in 1S40. His daughter, Elizabeth, 
married T)r. Arthur Hopkins, and it was their daughter, 
Mary, who married John Otey. Hopkins became a Chris- 



*William Mathews, father of Elizabeth Mathews, Bishop Otey's mother, was one 
of the seven brothers and partakers of the wars of that period (Indian. Colonial, 
and Revolutionary ' . His wife was named Frances Crowe. She left a little prayer 
book to her children with the words, "Keep steadfast to this faith once delivered to 
the saints."' 



62 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

tian name in the Otey family and John Hopkins Otey, of 
Franklin, Tenn., married one of Bishop Otey's sisters. 

One of James Hervey Otey's intimates at the University 
of North Carolina was William Mercer Green, who became an 
Episco])al clergyman, a j)rofessor in his Alma Mater and the 
13isli(>]) of Mississippi. He has published a memoir of his 
very dcai- friend, Otey, in which he says: ^'He had a keen, 
dark eye, a com})lexion made nj) of the ruddy and the brown, 
with straight, coal black hair, and the striding gait of the true 
son of the forest. Xo wonder then that he was soon dubbed 
with the nickname of 'the Cherokee.' But there was nothing 
vulgar about him." This "Cherokee" developed into an ex- 
ceedingly fine looking and connnanding person, in stature 
over G feet. One of his lady friends was once pressing him 
1.0 avow whether he was High or Low Church. He arose, 
erected himself and said: "1 am G feet 2 inches without 
shoes." He never would admit that he belonged to any 
])arty in the ('hiirch, but only claimed to be "^'a Churclnnan." 

A. D. 1820. His career at Cliai)el Hill University was 
bright and lionoralde, and he was graduated with high honor 
in JS2(), receiving the title of "Bachelor of Belles Lettres," 
the first time it was conferred by that institution, an evidence 
of his taste and culture. Bislioj) Green remarks: "Here 
)nay be seen tlic foundation of tliat clear, vigorous and correct 
style wliicli marks his writings."' lie nuist have paid s])ecial 
attention to the precious classics, for he was appointed tutor 
of i,;itin and (ireek in ihc universitv. 

A. D. 1800-1821. Till- l:;tli ..f October, 1S21, he was 
iiiarrie.l t.. Kli/.;i Davis rannill, born :\rarch 27, ISOO, very 
near bis own age. She was the blooming daughter of William 
Pannill and his wife, witli wlioni lie had boarded whilst he 
was a snidcnt. llcr fatbcr and ni<ilhci' were Viruinians, and 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 63 

prosperous, but owing to reverses of fortune, removed to 
North Carolina. He was the third William Pannill, of Vir- 
ginia, and was related to the Strothers, Mortons, Bankes. and 
Bruces. Mrs. Otey was related to the two great generals, 
Zaehary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, 
and J. E. B. Stuart, of Confederate fame. The Pannills 
can go back to the Roll of Battle Abbey. At the University, 
Mr. Otey, as a tutor, had to lead the morning religious exer- 
cises, and to offer prayer, in which he had had no practice, 
was embarrassing. A lady friend presented to him an Epis- 
copal Prayer Book, which not only relieved his embarrass- 
ment, but enlisted his admiration and was instrumental in 
shaping his life. Soon after his marriage he removed to 
Tennessee and was about to open a school at Franklin, Wil- 
liamson County, when he was induced to return to Xorth Caro- 
lina to take charge at Warrenton of an academy, which was 
just passing out of the hands of the Rev. G. W. Freeman, who 
afterwards became Missionary Bishop of Arkansas. There 
he was baptized by his warm friend. Rev. William Mercer 
Green, Rector of that parish, and confirmed by Bishop 
Rav^enscroft. 

A. D. 1825-1827. Whilst engaged in teaching, he pur- 
sued his theological studies, and was on the 10th of October, 
1S25, ordained a Deacon, and on June 7, 1827, a Priest, by 
Bishop Ravenscroft, for whom he always cherished great 
affection and veneration. He returned to Franklin, Tenn., 
took charge of Ilarpeth Academy and preached in the 
Masonic Hall. He was a Mason and had attained a high 
degree in that order. In Warrenton he had under his in- 
struction Gen. Braxton Bragg and his brother, the judge, and 
in Franklin, the world reno^vned Matthew Fontaine Maury. 
For (>ight years he led a hard and laborious life, as teacher. 



64 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

minister and missionary. There was only one clergyman to 
aid him — Rev. John Davis, a Deacon, sent out by a Mission- 
ary Society in the North. 

A. D. 1829-1831. In 1S29 he had the pleasure and 
encouragement of a visit from Bishop Ravenscroft. The 
Diocese of Tennessee was organized in liashville, July 1, 
1829, and in 1830 Bishop Meade, of Virginia, held a conven- 
tion there. In 1831 Bishop Ives, of North Carolina, visited 
the Diocese, and in that year the Rev. J. H. Otey was called 
to weep over the death of his oldest son, Reginald Heber. 

A. D. 1833-1834. In 1833 there were five Presbyters 
and one Deacon in the Diocese. The necessity for a Bishop 
was seriously felt, and a convention was held, partly for the 
purpose of electing one, in Franklin, June 27, 1833, and 
Rev. J. II. Otey was chosen. He was consecrated in Christ 
Church, Philadelphia, on the l-tth of January, 1834. The 
Venerable Bishop White was the Consecrator and was assisted 
by the brotliers Onderdonk and Bishop Doanc, who preached 
the sermon. Bishop Otey was then just 34 years old and 
proved to be one of the great and commanding members of 
the American Episcopate. About this time he was greatly 
reinforced by the arrival of the Rev. Leonidas Polk, who 
became Rector of St. Peter's Church, Columbia, Maury 
County, Tcnn. 

A. D. 1834-1836. Bishop Otey had long been prac- 
tically, as well as theoretically, a friend of education and had 
commenced advocating it publicly as early as 1832. One of 
the first acts of his Episcopate was to urge it before his con- 
vention in Columbia, June, 1834. His plan always was to 
establish good schools for both sexes, and to have a college, 
^^•hi(■ll would ciiiIir.KT. the |)rcparation of ministers of the 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 65 

gospel. He was strongly in favor of a native ministry so far 
as it could be obtained. It was not long before he conceived 
the idea of the Female Institute in Columbia, which was 
opened in 1836. In this he was warndy aided by Rev. 
1-eonidas Polk, and his brothers, who were men of wealth and 
liberality. It w^as, however, a difficult task to raise all the 
funds which such an institution needed, but he stood firndy 
by it, and by his own efforts obtained, outside of the Diocese, 
from Boston and Xew Orleans, a large, if not the larger part 
oi the means necessary for its erection and continuance. Be- 
sides being its visitor, he was one of its instructors. He also 
established "Mercer Hall" at his residence near Columbia 
and tried to establish "Ravenscroft College," and induced the 
Rev. John Thomas Wheat, D. D., to resign the Rectorship of 
his Church in Xashville to take charge of that college, but 
this enterprise did not succeed. 

A. D. 1837-1860. Bishop Otey was also the originator 
of the germ of ''The University of the South," now in opera- 
tion at Sewanee, Tenn. The views which he had so often 
and earnestly presented to his Church friends, both in Ten- 
nessee and Mississippi, were at last embodied in a charter, 
which he obtained in 1837, for Madison University, to be 
situated at Jackson, Tenn., but to be for the three States of 
Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. His warm friend 
and colaborer, Rev. Leonidas Polk, was one of the corporators, 
and undertook to visit the South for the purpose of obtaining 
funds for that university, but was prevented from carrying 
out his plans by the financial crisis of that year. Bishop 
Otey made various addresses in different parts of the Dio- 
cese and obtained some liberal subscriptions, but his hopes 
were again disappointed. Years afterwards, under more 
favorable circumstances and in a verv different condition of 



66 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

affairs, in both the nmreh and the country, from 18o7 to 
18(50, Bishop Polk very naturally and properly expanded the 
former plan, so as to make it embrace all the Southern Dio- 
ceses. An autograph letter qf Rev. James H. Otey to Thomas 
Adams, Esquire, of New Orleans, explains this plan : 

Memphis, January (i, 18(52. 

Thomas Adams. Esquire, New Orleans: 

Dear Sir — The following resolution was passed unani- 
mously by the Board of Trustees of the University of the 
South, at the late meeting at Charleston, S. C, to-wit : 

"Resolved, That the president of the board be requested 
to inform Thos. Adams, Esquire, that the trustees accede to 
his pro]:)osal to raise $25,000 by subscription for building pur- 
poses, and duly appreciate the interest expressed by him in 
behalf of the University." 

I need not say how much the friends of education gen- 
erally and the favorers of our enterprise in particular will be 
gratified l)v the successful accomplishment of the plan sug- 
gested by yon. That plan, if I understood it correctly, was 
for the citizens of (>ach of the States concerned in the Uni- 
versity to [U'ovide each a building at Sewanee by contributions 
in their States respectively, as Louisiana one, Mississippi 
one, etc. We shall be truly thankful to you if you can in- 
augurate a scheme which promises such happy results by suc- 
cessful application in Louisiana. If you are asked for any 
authority to raise funds in behalf of the University, the above 
resolution will be regarded as furnishing ample power. 

With the salutation of the season to yourself and Mrs, 
Adams and the expressicm of the hope of seeing you on the 
mountain next summer, I remain, very respectfully, 
Your friend and obedient servant, 

JAS. H. OTEY.* 



"Copied from the original bv the annalist. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 67 

A. D. 1835-1844. In December, 1835, Bishop Otej 
removed from I'ranklin to the vicinity of Columbia, so as to 
be nearer the Female Institute, that he might watch over it 
and place liis daughters in it. lie afterwards removed into 
the town and again, a little out of it, to "Mercer Hall," which 
he opened for students. He had the pleasure of preparing 
for the ministry of the Church several promising young men. 

In 1838 Rev. Leonidas Polk was elected j\Iissionary 
Bishop of Arkansas, and Bishoi) Otey succeeded him as 
Rector of St. Peter's. This only increased his Herculean 
task, but he felt constrained to accept the proffered position. 
The resources of the Diocese were then very meagre. In 
1841 Bishop Polk was elected Bishop of Louisiana, and the 
missionary work in Arkansas was, by the General Conven- 
tion, assigned to Bishop Otey, who was, most probably, the 
grandest missionary in spirit, zeal and actual labors, that the 
Church has ever had. His own Diocese was but a missionary 
field, a good part of his life. Shortly after his consecration 
the friends of the Church in Mississippi besought his assist- 
ance, and he afterwards became their provisional Bishop. At 
the request of the General Convention, he made a visitation 
of Florida. His efforts in Arkansas and the Indian Ter- 
ritory wera the more difficult and trying on account of roads 
and the means of locomotion, wherever steamboats could not 
be used. How he had to get along is shown by a letter from 
him to his friend, Mr. Wm. C. Hopkins, of N'orth Carolina, 
which is to be found in Bishop Green's memoir. He made 
full reports to the members of the Board of Missions, who 
published them in their organ, "T/ie Spirit of Missions." In 
1844 he was compelled to resign this jurisdiction. One result 
of his services to the Church in Mississippi was the close 
friendship of Dr. William ISTewton Mercer. This estimable 



68 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

and elegant gentleman was a wealthy and cultured planter 
near Xatcliez, but had a fine winter residence in Xew Orleans, 
where also the Bishop was his honored and welcome guest. 
Dr. ]\Iercer was also a great friend of the Hon. Henrj Clay, 
and on one occasion he entertained Mr. Clay and the Bishop 
at the same time. When Mr. Clay's son and namesake w^as 
killed in the Mexican war, and the sad intelligence reached 
New Orleans Bishop Otey happened to be there, at Dr. Mer- 
cer's, and was requested to write to Mr. Clay on the heart- 
rending subject. The Bishop put his own heart in that 
mournful epistle and it is thought that it had some instru- 
mentality in bringing the great orator and statesman into the 
Church. Bishop Otey named for Dr. Mercer his residence 
and school, near Columbia, and also his youngest child, who 
is still living at Oakland, Cal., and doing business in San 
Francisco. Dr. Mercer was very liberal and took him to 
Europe. The Bishop had an earnest desire to explore the 
Holy Land of Palestine and would have gratified it, but Dr. 
Mercer was afflicted with the death, in Paris, of his idolized 
daughter, an only child, and the Bishop gave up all idea of 
any furthei- travel and returned with his friend and his 
precious remains to the United States. 

A. D. 1851-1863. Bishop Otey's constitution and gen- 
eral physi(]ue wci'c strong and vigorous, but at last gave Avay 
under the character and extent of his devoted labors and he 
went to Europe in 1S51 for health and recreation and made 
trial of the water cure at Malvern, in England. The Rev. 
Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D. D., since Bishop of the Diocese of 
Buffalo, in New York, met with him in his travels and gives 
an interesting account of him. lie attached Mr. Coxe to him- 
self, as he (lid everyone else. ]\Ir. Coxe says that the Bishop's 
health maiiifcslly improved from the time that he took with 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. (39 

]iini an early morning bath in the Baltic Sea. They sang 
together at the Bishop's suggestion ''Old Iljmdred" in Fin- 
gaTs Cave. The Bishop made a stirring missionary speech 
before a ineeting over which the Prince Consort of England 
2)resided. This interesting and appreciative sketch by the 
llev. Mr. C^)xe is in the appendix to Bishop Green's Memoir. 
Whatever of Bishop Otey's views of the Southern Confeder- 
ate war were, at its commencement, and his letter to Hon. 
W. 11. Seward shows how he deprecated it, he became a warm 
sympathizer with the South ; and one of the late acts of his 
noble life was the writing of that encouraging letter to Gen- 
eral Leonidas Polk, whose mind was disturbed about his posi- 
tion in the Confederate Army. Bishop Otey remained at 
his home in Memphis during the war and died there, before 
General Polk was killed, April 23, 18G3, aged over 63 years. 
His two sons were in the (Vjufederate army. Two of his 
daughters were with him, and his eldest daughter and her 
husband tried to get there from ( 'olumbia, Mo., but were too 
late. His remains had already been consigned to the vault 
of a friend. They have since been interred at Ashwood, 
near Columbia, Tenn., where there are an Episcopal Church 
j.nd a cemetery.* 

The foregoing sketch of Et. Eev. James Hervey Otey, 
D. I)., first Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee, and provis- 
ional Missionary Bishop of Arkansas after Bishop Polk's 
resignation, was kindly furnished at the request of the 
annalist, by B. B. Minor, M. T). LL. I)., of Kichmond, Va.f 
who, at the time of writing, is beyond "three score and ten 
years,'' but whose pen has lost none of the polish of the 
former distinguished lawyer, professor and journalist, nor 
tlie reverent grace of the Churchman. As it is, without 



*St. John's Church, Ashwood. 
tSon-in-law of Bishop Otey. 



70 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

question, a faithful, trustworthy, though brief abstract of the 
life of the great num, who, throughout the South and South- 
west, bore the title of "the good Bishop," and thus furnishes 
a valuable introduction to his work as a missionary in Arkan- 
sas, it is here given intact. There are yet many in the Diocese 
who will read the sketch with personal and affectionate 
in teres?. 

A. D. 1 842. After Bishop Otey's death there was found 
among his papers a written request to him to consecrate the 
tivh^t Episcopal Church of Little Rock, Ark., dated Novem- 
ber 27, 1842. This paper bears the signatures of John H. 
Crease, Luke E. Barber, Wardens, and the following Vestry- 
men: Lambert Reardon, Sr., Charles Rapley, John Ilutt, 
J. P. Xorman, John Adamson, L. J. Reardon, F. W. Trap- 
nail, D. Butler, John Wassell, Wm. Prather. 

A. D. 1841-1842. The Bishop's first visitation was 
made in 1841, and the services were held in the same old 
Presbyterian Church, on Main and Second (or Cherry) 
streets, that had been j)roffered to Bishoj^ Polk, where he 
baptized and confirmed the members of the first congregation. 
At Bishop Otey's visitation in 1842 he confirmed a large class, 
among whom were Mrs. Reardon, Sr., and her deaughters. 
Among the first infants baptized were Lambert Wait, Ben 
Field, and Buckner Reardon. A contract for the building 
of the Church was made by Mr. Lambert Reardon, Sr., with 
Messrs. Robins and Morrison. Bishop Otey's zeal was infec- 
tious. The Senior Warden and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. 
Crease, nobly sustained him. Mrs. Crease collected the ladies 
of the infant parish together and there was earnest discus- 
sion of ways and means for erecting the house of worship. It 
was resolved to hold "a fair" and thereafter all worked with 
one consent to supply articles for merchandise. How happy 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 71 

thej ■s\'ere in their hallowed undertaking ! What germs of 
holy friendship were then sown, whose harvest is being 
rea]3ed to-day ! This fair was held in a large hall over the 
market house at the foot of Main street, near the river, and 
proved a great success, yielding $1,500 with, net profits of 
$1,106.50. The Church building was begun and completed. 
Bishop Otey's memory is indelibly connected with its progress 
by the old Church people. These were Judge William 
Hume Field's family, who had known him in Tennessee, the 
Waits, Popes, Hutts, Adamses, Weavers, Merricks, and Pikes, 
in addition to those already mentioned. 

To Mrs. Donna Otey Compton, of Washington, D. C, 
the youngest surviving daughter of Bishop Otey, the annalist 
is indebted for the loan of his pocket diaries, giving accounts 
of his tour through the missionary district of Arkansas, from 
the leaves of which a faithful transcript is here given. ^ Being 
herself an accomplished writer as well as a profoundly rever- 
ent and loving daughter, Mrs. Compton has also submitted for 
private inspection a graceful personal sketch of the Bishop, to- 
gether with other letters and papers concerning him, of great 
interest to the Church and the annalist, but nothing can so 
well put the heroic missionary before the ecclesiastical world 
as his own earnest, single-hearted chronicle of his daily effort 
and })rogress in the cause of Christ. While the opening 
campaign of the war with Spain for the independence of 
Cuba was in startling progress,^ and the glowing details were 
passing under the eager eyes of interested nations, the writer 
turned from the newspaper columns to the brief pages of this 
little diary with the consciousness that, glorious and thrilling 
as w^ere the deeds of our sailors and soldiers and their gallant 



1. Diaries received from Mrs. Compton, July 13, 1898. 

2. War declared April 21 ; May 1, opening engagement of the two fleets 
In Manila Bay. 



T2 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

eoininaiiders in the cause of war for humanity's sake, here 
was a hero greater than they, who, in the cause of peace and 
righteousness, had left behind these footsteps, which 

'"Iteniind us 
We can make our lives sublime;" 

and when it is remembered that Tennessee, Mississippi, and 
Florida can bear similar witness to his zeal, it is in solemn 
choral that we of the South unite in doing honor to "the great 
missionary." In the words of the prophets '"How beautiful 
upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good 
tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of 
good ; that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, thy 
God reign eth." 

A. D. 1842. Fehvuary 22, Tuesday. Montgomery's 
Point, Mississippi River. The Eialto is here this morning 
for Little Kock. Settle m\ tavern bill, which for three days 
is $6. * * * Eialto arrived at dark. Go aboard and 
find Colonel Jos. W. Clay and family going up Arkansas. 
* * * The Rialto leaves Montgomery Point about 11 
]). m. ; passes over to Victoria and leaves immediately for 
White River and the Arkansas. 

Wednesday, 23. Awake this morning ascending the 
Arkansas. Land on each side low and liable to overflow. 
Arrive at ]\lr. Clay's, about seventeen miles above the Post of 
Arkansas. The farm or cotton plantation is a beautiful one, 
reminding me much of the coast of the Mississippi, below 
Xatchez. * * * p^gg gome fine looking plantations on 
the river, ])articnlarly ]\rcLean's, Harrison Douglass's, Dye's, 
and L. C. Taylor's. Reach Pine Bluff at -S'o'clock a. m. 

Thursday, 24. Arrived at Little Rock, Y :30 p. m., and 
went to the Anthony House. Pound there Mr. C. A. Harris 
and family. Mr. Harris sick abed, but convalescent. Paid 
passage on Rialto, $10. Paid for trunk to hotel, 25 cents.-. 



Extracts from (iiaries shf)uld lie read with an atlap 



TriE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 73 

Friday, 25. Slept comfortably last night. * * * 
At breakfast find that Mr. Anthony, the proprietor, is from 
Bedford, Va. Sent last night by Mr. Meigs two Prayer 
Books to the little Miss Nairs in the Indian Nation. Went 
out to see Rev. Mr. Yeager, whom I found at home. Went 
with him and visited the Church, a brick edifice with organ 
gallery, floors laid, pews yet to be made, pulpit and the walls 
to be plastered and house painted; will accommodate, when 
finished, 300 or 400 people. Called on Mr. Trapnell and 
delivered Dr. Greenfield's letter and take his receipt for three 
notes left with him for collection. Meet with Mr. Jeffreys 
and Mr. Haraldson. Go to Mr. Reardon's and take up my 
quarters there by his invitation. Many persons call in the 
afternoon — Colonel Ashley and lady, "Slv. Grubb, Mrs. Kear- 
don, Jr., and Lawyer W. O. Perkins. 

Fehraanj 2G. At night Mr. Yeager read prayers, after 
which I preached to a large and apparently intei-ested congre- 
gation. Returned to lodgings, the night being beautiful and 
bright with moonlight. * * * Many persons called this 
forenoon and among them a Mr. Stewart, a Methodist 
preacher, holding letters or orders from Dr. Thos. Coke. He 
is seeking orders in the Episcopal Church and had applied 
to Bishop Kemper, to whom I referred him, Avith the assur- 
ance that I could do nothing for him. Called on Mr. Sutton, 
who is very ill ; communed and ]u-ayed with him. Called at 
Dr. Yeager's. Went to steamboat landing and engaged 
passage on the Corvette for next Tuesday. Called at Colonel 
Ashley's, at Mr. Anthony's, at J\lr. Jeffrey's, and at Dr. Nor- 
man's. At night, after prayers by Dr. Yeager, I preached 
to a full house — very attentive congregation throughout. 

Sunday, February 27. After prayer this morning I 
baptized Lambert Reardon. son of Wm. B. Wait and Lavinia 
Wait ; Simeon Buckner, son of Lambert and Priscilla Rear- 
don ; rfolrn Henry, sou of Jno. W. and Margaret Johnston, 
and Clara Ophelia, daughter of Rev. Mr. Yeager and his 
wife. Preached to a large congregation. At night, not- 
withstanding the Aveather was inclement, after prayers by 



74 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Mr. Yeager, 1 preached to a good congregation— very hoarse, 
and breast oppressed. This afternoon became acquainted 
with Dr. Desha and wife. Dr. Desha is a son of the former 
governor of Kentucky. 

Monday, 28. Weather warm and cloudy, threatening 
rain ; lioarseness increased. Write letters to Rev. Mr. Scull 
and Rev. Mr. Carder. Called on Mr. Sutton with Dr. Yea- 
ger, and again prayed with him. Dined at Judge Casseen's.* 
Called at hotel to see Mr. Harris, at Mr. Jeffrey's, and took 
tea at Mrs. Crise's.f At night, after prayers by Mr. Yeager, 
preached to a large congregation. 

Tuesday, March 1. Weather warm and cloudy. * * * 
Report in town that the government Moorehead steamboat 
has been blown u]) and several citizens of this place on her 
killed ! Dined at Mr. Anthony's and at 4 o'clock went to 
Dr. Norman's to meet the Vest^w, only three of whom. Dr. 
Norman, Mr. Grubb, and Mr. Reardon, with Rev. Mr. Yea- 
ger, were present, in consequence^ probably, of a storm of 
rain, thunder and lightning. I advised the Vestry by all 
means to recommend a reduction of their present number 
(twelve) to seven at their next election. I told them further- 
more, that tlie subscriptions made for the support of the 
minister ought and must be collected by the Vestry and not 
by the minister ; that care must be taken to have money mat- 
ters between them and minister, especially, entirely straight 
and easy ; that thej^ might do much themselves by reminding 
others of their duty ; that religious services were a public 
benefit, etc. 

Wednesday. 1 stayed at house nearly all day. * ^ * 
Thursday, March 3. * * * The Corvette steamer 

came down tlio river this morning and I go on board of her 

on my return. 

The diary then notes the course of the Bishoj) through 
Mississip])i and again, in November, of 1842, we find him 
in Arkansas and Indian Territorv. 



•Cansine's. 
tCrease's. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 75 

A. D. 1842. Wednesday, November 16. Left Kev. 
Mr. iSciiirs (Fajetteville) this morning. Very misty and 
raining. Pass through some fine farming land ; prairie coun- 
ti'y. Saw a fine deer, nnmeroiis partridges, larks without 
number. Arrived at General Campbell's, on Canehill, in 
company with Dr. Yeager and Mr. Paradise, about 2 p. m. 
Very cold and covered with mud. * * * 

Monday, November 21. — Left Evansville this morning 
and rode to Van Buren, thirty-three miles. Some good arable 
land ; natural dam on Lee Creek ; fine mountain scenery. 
Stop at Mr. Duval's. Put up at Colonel Drennen's. Meet 
Mrs. Clemm, just from Tennessee. Dr. Yeager reads prayer 
and I preach. Congregation good. 

Tuesday, November 22. Breakfast and dine at Major 
Dillard's. Leave and ride fifteen miles to Major B. Moore's, 
which we reach long after dark. Buy buffalo robe at Van 
Buren for $4.50. Very disagreeable ride through woods, fol- 
lowing small trail. Much company. ]\Ir. Gregg and family 
and others at Major Moore's. 

Wednesday, November 23. Left Major Moore's late 
tliis morning and ride to Mrs. McLeland's, twenty-five miles. 
Weather again excessively cold — weary ! ! ! 

Thursday, November 24. Left Mrs. McLeland's this 
morning before sunrise. Very heavy frost and weather dis- 
tressingly severe. Mr. Hintsen keeps house for Mrs. Mc- 
Leland, whose daughter he married. Mrs. McLeland is a 
sister of Colonel Geo. Sevier, near !N'ashville. We rode 
rapidly to-day and crossed the Arkansas at Dardanelle before 
sundown, and came on to Ewing's early. Bill, $1 apiece, $3. 
Saw four deer near the road ; also a flock of turkeys. Arrived 
at Allen's, near Cadron, before sundown, thirty-six miles. 
Ferriage at Dardanelle, 7."3 cents; at Point Pemove, 37^ 
cents— $1.1 2|. 

Saturday, November 20. Left Cadron before sunrise. 
Bill, etc., $3. Rain in the morning. Saw a fine deer. 
Reacii Little Rock thirty-eight minutes before sundown, and 
stop at Mr. Trapnall's. 



76 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Sunday, Novonher 27. Morning prayer by Mr. Scull ; 
lessons by Dr. Yeager. Consecrated Christ Churcli and 
preach ; congregation large. At night prayers by Scull ; les- 
sons by Yeager; sermon by myself. Weather very cold. 
Letter last evening from Dr. Anthon. 

Monday, November 28. Wrote letters to-day to Dr. 
Mitchell, Dr. Freeman, Dr. Anthon, Mr. Goodman and to 
wife. Paid Mr. Scull for traveling expenses- — $10. Was 
waited upon by a committee of the Legislature with a request 
to deliver an address on education, which I agreed to do. At 
night Dr. Yeager read prayers and Rev. Mr. Scull preached. 

Tuesday November 29. Wrote to the legislative com- 
mittee, appointing 11 o'clock to-morrow to deliver an address. 
\\"eather gloomy and lowering. Dined at Major Butler's. 
Governor Yell, (^aptain Xorman and others present. At 
night, after prayers by Dr. Yeager, I preached. 

Wednesday, November 30. Dined to-day at Mr. Rear- 
don's. Called at Mr. Dunn's and at Mr. Crease's. At 
night Dr. Yeager read prayers and I preached. Congrega- 
tion pretty large. Weather is clear and cool. 

llinrsday, December 1. Went to the Hall of Represen- 
tatives to-day and delivered an address on education. Well 
received. Dr. Powel muttered and mouthed and finally got 
up and left the room. Dined at Judge Causine's. Called 
at Mr. Rapley's, Colonel Ashley's and took tea at Mr. Dunn's. 
At night Dr. Yeager read prayers and I preached on the 
Apostolical Succession. 

Friday, December 2. Weut to Hall of Representatives 
and Senate Chand)er, called on General Conway. Our Dr. 
Yeager very sick. Met Vestry. Adjourned to to-morrow 
at 10 a. m. At night read ))rayers and baptized the follow- 
ing flr/?///.s: (1) Ann Reardon, (2) Priscilla Reardon, (3) 
Martha Lavinia Wait, (4) Helen Jane Scott, (5) Jno. Ed- 
mund Reardon, and (G) Judith Ellen Field; and the follow- 
ing children: (I) Daniel Walter Ringo, (2) Richard Wat- 
kina Ringo, (?>) Mary Frances Ringo, (4) William Field 
l^iplcy. (:>) Liuira Lotitin Raidey, (0) Ron Johnson Field, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 77 

(7) Laura Virginia Adanison, and (8) Laura Crease; after 
which I addressed the congregation, which was large, on con- 
firmation. 

Satufday, December o. Met the Vestry tliis morning. 
They passed a resohition. granting Dr. Yeager leave of 
absence three months after the 1st of April, 1843. Appointed 
a committee to j^rovide Dr. Yeager and family boarding and 
pay his servant hire till next April, and the eight present 
agreed to lend $25 apiece to the Church to pay Mr. Crease's 
debt. Dined at Mr. Crease's. At night read prayers and 
preached. 

Sunday, December 4. Read Morning Prayer and Ante- 
Communion ; preached and confirmed thirteen persons: (1) 
Captain J. A. L. TsTorman, (2) Wm. C. Scott, (3) Mrs. M. L. 
Wait, (4) Mrs. H. J. Scott, (5) Mrs. Ann Reardon, (6) Mrs. 
John Adamson, (7) Mrs. Priscilla Reardon, (8) Mrs. Mary 
Watkins, (9) Miss C. Crease, (10) Mrs. Judge Hutt, (11) 
Judge Hutt, (12) Colonel Williamson Oldhani, (13) Robert 
Clements. At night read prayers and preached to a large 
congregation. Weather warm. 

Monday, December 5. Grant connnission as lay reader 
to Mr. Jno. A. L. jSTorman. At night read prayers, baptized 
John Field and Mary Elizabeth, children of Judge Jno. Hutt 
and wife; preached and confirmed five persons: (1) Phili]) 
L. Anthony, (2) Mrs. Mary Ann Ringo, (3) Mrs. David 
Butler, (4) Mrs. Jane Crease, and (5) Miss Harriet Dickin- 
son. Tea at L. Reardon's. 

Tuesday. December G. Staid all night at Anthony 
House. Mr. Crease called early and gave me a packet of 
letters to nuiil at Memphis. Left in the stage at 8 o'clock 
a. m., it raining hard, which continued all day; nine passen- 
gers in company. Captain Rogers, of Cherokee ]^ation, 
being one, a very large helpless man. Stage came near 
upsetting at the river in entering ferryboat; driver was 
thrown off. Paid for fare on the road to-day, $1.50. 
Reached Rock Row at 9 p. m. Stage leaked badly and we 
wore all uucnmfortnlilc and wet. Found sovfM'nl aroat rowdies 



78 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

at Kock Row, blasphemous and profane wretches. Retired to 
bed and young Rogers, the Indian, presently turned in with 
me. Before we were composed for sleep w^e were aroused 
by the arrival of the mail boat ; Avalked to the river, a quarter 
of a mile off, in the rain and mud up to the legs, went aboard 
and got to bed. 

Wednesday, December 7. Very heavy rain all night; 
thunder and lightning. Boat started a little after light; 
still raining, which continued nearly^ all day. Long after 
night we approached the mouth of ^Vhite River, which, for 
half a mile from the Mississippi, is full of snags. By the 
merciful guidance of Providence we steered clear of them 
and at length entered the father of Waters. It had been 
lightning for some time and the storm burst upon us. Neither 
shore was visible and for a little time the pilot knew not 
which way to steer. At length we reached Montgomery's 
Point in safety, for which mercy God's holy name be praised. 
I never felt in greater peril. At the landing the Xarragansett 
was just ready to depart and the majority of our passengers, 
eight or nine in number, went aboard of her. It seemed to 
me like a tempting of Providence to go on the river, so dark, 
foggy and stormy a night. I was invited by Mr. Greenwood 
to his house and accepted the invitation. Saw^ Captain 
Stevenson here. 

Thursday, December S. Slept well last night, and be- 
fore breakfast was ended the "Josiah Nichol/' a Nashville 
boat, liove in sight. I w^ent aboard and took a berth and 
now, at 3 :30 p. m., we are lying to for wood. The day has 
been cool, somewhat cloudy and windy and the river rather 
rough. At night al)()ut 7 p. m. ran upon a sandbar. After 
struggling for an hour, we at length backed off and ran the 
remainder of the night without accident.* 

A. D. 1843. March IH. Our only prospect of getting 
on now seems to ho to reach Fulton and take horses, 110 miles 



"There is another jiccount in the diary of a visitation of Bishop Otev to Arkansas 
hy a rtififere^nt route Prom Memphis to New Orleans, fr. m thence up tlie Red River 
via Alexandria, Natchitoches, etc. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 79 

to Fort Towson. It is doubtful Avhether our captain will 
go beyond the bayou. 

March 17. This morning met a rise in the river (Red 
River) and our captain resolved to take his cotton from the 
head of the bayou and return to the raft. Thus another whole 
day is lost. About sundown started down the river to the 
raft. Heard Lieutenant Armistead was on the "Hunter" 
in the bayou. 

March 18. Wrote letters this morning to Dr. Mercer 
and to Wm. C. Hopkins and sent by the Belle of Red River. 
White frost on ground this morning ; day clear and fine. Left 
Hurricane Bluffs second time at 3 :30 o'clock and proceeded 
up the river, expecting to land at Fulton. Our captain, after 
losing three days in going up and down the river to remove 
his cotton, is at length fairly under press of steam for Fulton. 

March 19. Weather clear and pleasant; river rising 
and drift wood running; banks higher and river wider; land 
good. Some fine plantations, particularly Garland's place, 
which is a prairie, also Bob Hamilton's plantation, called 
'^Little Prairie." We reach Fulton on the night of March 
19. In the morning hire a horse and a guide for Washing- 
ton, which place we reach at 12 m. and stop at Mr. Britt's 
hotel. LTe hires us two horses to ride to Fort Towson, for 
$-'5. Road for six miles bad. See Captain l^orman, Mr. 
Sanders, Dr. Isaac Jones, and Mr. Trimble. Tea at Mr. 
Sanders. Mr. Sanders reads prayers and I baptize five 
children and preach. (Children of Benjamin Pendleton 
Jett and Hester Lett — B. P. J. Sponsor.) (1) Edward 
Davenport Lett, (2) Benjamin Pendleton Jett, (3) Rosinia 
Virginia Jett, (5) Emma Jett. Washington is a poor look- 
ing town of 300 or 400 people. 

:March 21. Leave Washington at 8:30 a. m. Mr. 
I'rimble rides with us several miles to show us a good road ; 
very kind in him. He married Miss Xeal, of Franklin, 
Tenn. Have a lonely ride with Mr. II. Country very poor 
and thinly settled. Cross Mine Creek and the Saline, and 
reach Stallcup's at 4:30 j). m. Saw to-day five or six deer, 



80 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

eight wild geese, two turkeys, and two ducks. Distance from 
AVasliington to Stallcup's, forty miles. 

March 22. Leave Stallcup's at 7:15 a. m. ; arrive at 
L'ltinia Tliule, over an exceedingly poor country; pine ridges 
and forests ; timber dead, on lire ; wind high ; swamps terrible ; 
many deer. To-day entered the Choctaw jSfation. First act 
to l)aptize a child, Lucy Ellen, daughter of Lorenzo T. and 
Elizabeth Harris. Ride to Rev. Mr. Byington's, accom- 
panied by Mr. Harris and his nephew. The Harrises (uncle 
and nephew) married sisters of Colonel P. P. Pitchlym. 
Rev. j\Ir. Byington is a teacher and preacher in Choctaw 
jSTation. School under the control of B. C. F. M. Choctaws 
give seven-eighth or six-seventh for support of establishment. 
Everything seemed neat, cleanly, and in good order. Chil- 
dren appear happy and contented. Suggested to Mr. Bying- 
ton and ]\rr. Wright the importance of a '^Liturgy," which 
they received kindly. Stop at Colonel Pitchlym's. Lost his 
Avife. Reach Towson at 7 o'clock p. m. Weary! weary! 
weary! ! 

Mdich 24. ^lorning prayer Avas read by Rev. Mr. 
Harris. Sermon by myself. Afternoon prayer was read 
by myself and sermon by Mr. Harris, who also preached at 
night at Doakville. Saw Rev. ]\Ir. Kingsberry, missionary. 
At night visited 'Mvi. Bacon, a sick lady. 

Matxli 25. Very unwell for a week past with dyspepsia, 
worse to-day. Wrote this morning to Colonel A. M. M. Fp- 
shaw, at Fort Washita, dominate Mr. Wm. Johnson and 
]\Ir. Gay for chaplain at this post. Mr. Gay unanimously 
cliosen. Rode to Doakville and to Mr. Kiiigsberry's with 
^fajor Andrews, Dr. Baily and Mr. Harris. " Visited Mr. 
Kingsberry's school (female). It has thirty girls in charge 
with two teachers — ]\riss Arms and Miss Dickinson. Tlie 
eliildren do not look si)rig]itly, Imt dull, and their exhibitions 
show mucli stupidity. "Mr. Kingsberry and family appear 
to be amial)le and devoted to their work. Had a long con- 
versation with him about introducing a ^'liturgv." He pro- 
fessed to tliiidx well of the i>rojoet. Have experienced many 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 81 

and marked attentions from the officers of the garrison. The 
commandant has every day detailed an orderly for my nse. 

Jiarch 'US. Ilain this morning. Write to Messrs. Gay 
and Johnson, of Ch. Hill, Ala. Lieutenant Armistead and 
lady arrived hy steamboat. Heavy rain. ]\Ir. Kingsberry 
calls. Write to Mr. Ch. Tomes and send draft on T. at 
Harford, X. Y., for $500. At night prayers by Mr. Harris 
and sermon by myself. 

March 27. Left Fort Towson. liain. Lieutenant Wet- 
more, three ])rivates and wagon. Dr. Baily, to Spencer 
Academy. Fifty boarders, under Rev. McHenny, ]\rr. Wil- 
son, and Mr. Dwight (Mr. U wight, Choctaw) ; $0,000 amount 
of allowance. Rode throngh a Avell watered and good coun- 
try at lirst, then very poor and rough. Stop and pitch tents 
about 5 p. m. 

March 28. Camp I'ecose. Slept comfortably under a 
tent. Fished last night. Lieutenant Wetmore and I caught 
a mess for supper. ]\Lirch at 6 :3(\ O, the mountains ! the 
blue mountains! how they remind me of my own I my native 
land! Prairies; Kimishi River, thunder cloud. Hi camp 
by ]). m. 

March, 29. In a prairie (Camp Pluviose). Thunder, 
lightning; high wind and heavy rain all night; propose fire; 
va'u\ and muddy in the morning; water courses all up. Left 
our camp at 8 a. m. Rains all day till at night it changes 
into snow. Reach Pursley's Creek; find it high, 10 or ^^ 
feet of water. Pitch our tent. Cold, wet and muddy ; high 
wind, etc. 

March, 30. Camp Moose. Snow half inch deep ; clear 
and cold ; light clouds flying. Slept with little comfort. 
Cross the dividing ridge l)etween the Red and Arkansas 
rivers. Waited eighteen hours to cross Pursley's Creek. 
Broke the king bolt ; roads very deep in places ; extensive 
pine barrens ; prairies ; mountains on mountains ! 

Marcl) 3L Sanday. Camp Terrill. Hay of vest. 
Reached Terrill's (Hidian) at sundown. The Poteau im- 



82 THE ANNALS OF CHRlST CHURCH PARISH. 

passable. Slept in TerriU's house last night — the hardest 
floor I ever felt! Went to top of mountain and again dedi- 
cated myself and all that I have in solemn prayer to God. 
This is the anniversary of my wife's birth. Fervently have I 
pi'ayed for her ! 

April 1. Poteau still too high to cross, aud we have to 
wait here to-day, perhaps to-morrow. Went "afishing'' and 
caught nothing. Passed the remainder of the day in read- 
ing. Mr. Harris went with DeWit into the country to find 
some Indian families. Saw one family in a comfortable 
condition, etc. 

April 2. Clear. T cross the Poteau this morning. Road 
passes to-day through some good land and some of the most 
beautiful prairies I ever saw. Mountains on our right, the 
'"Sugar Loaf;" on our left, the "Caviniole" — called by the 
Indians, '"'Grumbling Mountain," an extinct volcano. Fine 
streams ; grouse, deer ; large mounds. 

April 3. Left camp early this morning and reached 
Fort Smith about 9 a. m. Was invited by General Zachary 
Taylor to his quarters. After dinner rode with ]\Iajor Hun- 
ter to see Mrs. Nowland. Saw Mrs. Berryhill, Mrs. Bates, 
Mrs. Pease, Mrs. Magee, and returned. Mr. McManus is, 
T hoar. sick. 

April 4. Kodc with General Taylor this morning and 
viewed the new fortifications. Bought cigars, belting, bags, 
$6. Saw Colonel Loomis and lady, Mrs. Hunton, Houghman 
and daughter. Dined with General Taylor, then rode to 
Van Buren. Saw Mr. McManus, who read prayers at night, 
r preached in C. IL Congregation large and attentive. 

April ,5. Good Friday. Very unwell this morning. 
Mr. Harris came down and left on steamboat ''Roller" for 
Fort Gibson. Wrote to Bishop Whittingham and clergy in 
Baltimore. ]\iet with the Masons in lodge; walked in pro- 
cession and laid the ronicr stone of Trinity Church, Van 
Buren. I'hen drh'\('rcd an address after appropriate religious 
exercises, etc. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 83 

April G. Boat eaiiu^ last nijziit at 11 p. ni., went aboard. 
Left \"an Buren about U :oO a. in. Scenery on the xVrkansas 
grand and imposing; liigli, beetling cliffs on the banks, espe- 
cially on the right side. Heavy storm of rain, thunder and 
lightning. 

April 7. Easter. Compelled to pass this blessed and 
lioly day on a steamboat. Rain, thunder and lightning this 
morning. Bev. Mr. Foreman (Cherokee) left the boat last 
night at Spadra, making it a matter of conscience not to 
travel on Sunday. Mountains approach very near the river 
at times ; sublime cliffs ! Bead prayers and preached in the 
afternoon. 

Ap)'il 0. Saw Mr. Brearly last night at Dardanelle. 
Bassed the wreck of the "Arkansas" this morning; afterwards 
came to the mouth of Fourche La Fevre, where a dead man 
(droAvned) was picked up from the Arkansas, the captain 
of which engaged a man to bury him — from Green County, 
Ohio. Breach at Little Bock and confirm thirteen. Letters 
from home. Write to Charles Tomes. 

April 9. Left Little Bock last night. 

A. D. 1 844. Bishop Otoy made another visitation to 
Arkansas in 1S44-. Bev. James Young, Missionary Rector. 
A list of those confirmed by him on April 8, 1844, thirteen 
in number, is here given : 

(1) Harriet Grafton, (2) Mrs. Samuel F. Johnson, (3) 
Mrs. Clarissa Beebe, (4) Miss Caroline Elliott, (5) Miss 
S. S. D'Estimanville, (G) Mrs. Martha F. Trapnell, (7) Dr. 
Skinner, (8) Mrs. Merrick, (9) Mrs. Miller, (10) Mrs. 
Field, (11) Miss Frances Field, (12) Miss Ellen Field, (13) 
Mrs. Charles Rapley. 

Copy of letter from Bishop James H. Otey to Rev. Otis 
PTackett, of Helena, Ark., which relates the appointment to 
jurisdiction of Arkansas, after the death of Bishop Freeman. 
Courtesy of Dr. B. B. Minor, son-in-law of Bishop Otey: 



84 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Meiupliis, Tc'im., June 1, 1858. 

Jicv. and Dear Sir — 1 have just received a letter from 
the Kt. Rev. Senior Bishop T. C. Brownell, D. 1)., etc., ap- 
pointing nie to the office of Missionary Bishop of Arkansas, 
rendered vacant by the lamented Bishop Freeman's death. 
As I know not what clergymen or laymen compose the stand- 
ing committee, nor where to address the committee, I write to 
you and ask of you the favor to communicate to the com- 
mittee my acceptance of the charge, and furthermore to ask 
of the connuittee to communicate to me as speedily as possible 
the names of the standing committee, president and secretary, 
where it may be addressed, the names and residences of the 
clergymen belonging to the jurisdiction of the late Missionary 
Bishop, the organized parishes, missionary stations, and any 
other information necessary for me to have in order to the 
administration of the aifairs of the late Bishop's jurisdiction. 
I cannot probably make a visitation of the State before the 
fall, though I may find it in my ])0wer to do something in 
that way during the sunnner for the congregations near the 
Mississippi River. I remain, very truly. 

Your faithful friend and l)rother, 

JAS. II. OTEY. 

Jvev. Otis Ilackett, Helena, Ark. 

Froui a sermon prepared by the Rev. John A. Harrison 
for a service licld at Eastertide, on the tenth anniversary of 
his decease, during the session of a Diocesan Convention, the 
following beautiful trilmte is taken: 

J1ie aged Saiiu i-eceived his release in the sixty-third 
year of his age, in the thirtieth of his Episcopate, and the 
tliirty-eighth of his ministry. As he lay in the former 
cliancol of this Church (at Memphis) in his robes, pre- 
])are(l foi- his burial, the long, large frame, with a cross 
clasj.ed in his hand, he looked as he was, the Christian warrior 
m repose. His dear remains are interred in the sweet God's 
acre of Sr. John's, Aslnvood* We have the comfort of a 

♦See picture near tluit of Bishop Polk, who witl) his brotJiers erected it. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 85 

I'luisonablo, religions and holy hope that he now rests from 
liis labors, "blessed in the Lord," in company with his wife 
and the children who had preceded him, in commnnion with 
the Stephens, Father and Son, and with Lytton, with Allston, 
and Tomes, and Fagg; with Ravenscroft, and Ilobart, and 
White ; with Cranmer, and Latimer, and liidley ; with 
Angnstine, and Chrysostom, and Pol^^carp ; with St. Panl, 
and St. John, and St. Peter, and with the faithfnl departed 
of all ages. 'J'heii dnst is gold! "If we believe that tTesus 
<lied and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus 
will God bring with Him.''' "The memory of the just is 
blessed." The good husbandman waited long for the precious 
fruit of the seed he had sown. It never fully came. It 
shall come finally. Tennessee shall honor the name of her 
first Bisho]), and the Southwest the character of its great mis- 
sionary. The young men and maidens he taught, the scores 
he ordained, the hundreds he confirmed, the congregations to 
whom he ministered, and all that knew him shall call him 
blessed. And the wilderness and the solitary places shall, 
after the early and the latter rain, blossom as the rose ; and 
blessing shall be upon the head of him, who, for more than a 
quarter of a century, planted in and watered it. We will 
thank God for the good example of this. His servant. We 
will seek for grace to walk as he did in the footsteps of (^hrist. 
We will pray God_, that with all those who are departed 
hence in the true faith of his holy name, we may have our per- 
fect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul in His 
eternal and everlasting glory." 

His own chosen epitaph was giveii on his death-bed. 
''Write me," he said, "the first Bishop of the Catholic Church 
of Tennessee. Say in my behalf, 'The blood of Jesus Christ 
cleanseth from all sin.' " 

There are three portraits of him. One hangs in the Epis- 
copal residence at Memphis, the second is at the University 
of the South at Sewanee, and the third is at the Historical 
Society rooms, at Nashville, Tenn. 

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86 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

JjisLoj) Otej published a uuiiibtT of charges, sermons, 
speeches and addresses^ — "The Unity of the Church/' "The 
Ministry," '^The Apostolical Succession," and three dis- 
courses in 1852, viz : "Doctrine," "Discipline," and "^Yor- 
sliip of the American Branch of the Catholic Church, Ex- 
plained and Unfolded." His work in Tennessee lost nothing', it 
seems, by the generous distribution of his time in the interest 
and welfare of the mission in Arkansas. He died revered 
and lamented in both States. In the new Church at Little 
Rock a memorial has been placed to his memory — an eagle 
lecturn, with outspread wings, carved in walnut wood, bearing 
the reading desk. This is supported by a colunm with tri- 
angular base, having, three feet, each foot a carved lion, the 
whole decorated with fenr de lis. It bears this inscription: 

"In memoriam, Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D. D., 
Consecrated January 4, 1831; died April 23, 1863." 

The children of Rt. Rev. James H. Otey, D. D., and 
Uliza Davis Parnell, his wife, were: 

1. Virginia Maury. Married May 26, 1842, in St. 
Peter's Church, Columbia, Tenn., Benjamin Blake Minor, a 
lawyer of Richmond, Ya. They are now living in that city, 
both over three score and ten years. Dr. Minor has been 
editor and proprietoi- of the South.eni Litcranj Messenger; 
corresponding secretary of the Virginia Bible Society ; secre- 
tary of the Virginia Colonization Society; president of the 
Richmond Tract Societv ; director of the Virginia Historical 
Society; Vestryman, Warden, Register and Delegate of St. 
James's Church, Richmond, Va. ; principal of the Virginia 
Female Institute (Episcoi)al), at Staunton, Va. ; delegate and 
vice president of the Connnercial Convention, at Memphis ; 
president of the State University at Missouri, which conferred 
"I li'"i 'Ik' honorary degree of LL. D. ; principal of Minor's 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 87 

Sciiiinary for Young Ladies, in St. Louis, Mo. Ilo is now 
the secretary of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the Ameri- 
can Revolution. Mrs. Minor was promoter of the Mount 
Vernon Association, and of other laudable enterprises, and 
has been the author of numerous highly creditable produc- 
tions in prose and in verse, besides excelling in vocal and 
instrumental music on the piano, harp and guitar. They 
have had eight sons and three daughters.* 

2. Henrietta Coleman. Married the Rev. Charles 
Tomes, who died in IsTashville^ whilst he was Rector of a 
Church there. She has recently died in Washington, D. C. 
They have left two children, Margie (unmarried), George, in 
l\ew York (married and has children). Mr. Tomes was an 
Englishman, a widower with children and a member of a 
large hardware house in jS^ew York. He there became ac- 
quainted with Bishop Otey and went to Tennessee to pursue 
his studies for the ministry under the Bishop. After he 
became his son-in-law he took charge of a Church in Sing 
Sing, N. Y., but was called to l^ashville, where he proved to 
be an efficient and successful Rector, and was instrumental 
in having built a new and handsome Church. 

3. Brr/inald Heher. Died in his tenth year at Franklin, 
Tenn. 

4. Paul Hooker. Died in jMcmphis of the last yellow 
fever there. In that visitation and the previous one, he ren- 



*The accompanying notice from a Richmond paper announces the distressing 
•death of one of these sons : 

MR. MINOR'S BODY HERE. 

KILLED NOVEMBER 4, 1898 — HIS REMAINS INTERRED YESTERDAY. 

The body of Mr. Washington Minor, who was killed at Wiekford Junction, R. I., 
last Friday, arrived here at 8:40 o'clock yesterday morning, and was conveyed to the 
home of his father, Mr. B. B. Minor, No. r)20 West Grace street, whence at 3:30 
o'clock, it was taken to All Saints' Church, where funeral services were held. Rev. 
J. Yates Downman conducted the services, and the interment was in Hollywood. 
The family have not yet received the particulars of the youner man's death, though 
they have been advised by the railroad authorities that a letter of particulars lias 
l>een mailed. 



88 THE ANNALS OP^ CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

dercd valuable service. lie attended Kenyon College, Ohio, 
but was educated medically in Richmond, and in Philadel- 
])hia, under the celebrated Dr. Muter. He married Mary 
Ann Bowles, of Holly Springs, :Miss., and became a planter 
near :\Iarianna, Ark. ; was a surgeon in the Confederate army ; 
lost his wife about the close of the war, and settled in Mem- 
j)his for the practice of his profession. They had no 
children, but adoi)ted an orphan girl, Avhom they reared to be 
ii fine woman, who survived them and married well. 

5. Sarah McGavock. Died just as she finished her 
course at the Columbia Female Institute, and her eighteenth 
year. She was richly endowed in every respect. She was 
so beloved hy her father that her death was a crushing blow 
to him. 

0. Mary Fogg. Married Daniel C. Govan, of Missis- 
sippi. He became a ])lanter near Marianna, Ark. During 
the struggle of the Southern Confederacy, he was the colonel 
of the Second Arkansas ; was promoted to the rank of briga- 
dier general ; was wounded and taken prisoner in the battle 
of Franklin. After the war he resumed his planting in 
Arkansas. ]]y the administration of President Cleveland 
he was a])])ointed superintendent of Indian affairs in Wash- 
ington State, wdiere he is noAv. His wife was, not very long- 
ago, killed by an accident on the street car in Seattle. They 
liave sons and daughters, several of whom are married. 

7. Eliza Pilplcy {called Donna). ]^Iarried Robert 
Com])ton, of Lexington, Va. He Avas a student of the Vir- 
ginia ^Military Institute and a member of the famous Stone- 
wnll Hrigade. Since the war he and his wife lived several 
years in "Missouri, where he was a teacher. He died several 
years ago in Xorfolk, Va. She has lived for years in Wash- 
ington City, wliere she has some employment under the gov- 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 89 

eminent. She has four interesting daughters, three of 
whom are married, and she is a grandmother. 

8. Frances Jane Brctneij. Died in her verv promis- 
ing girlhood. 

9. WiUiani Newton Mercev. Xamed for the Bishop's 
very dear friend, Dr. Mercer, of ISTew Orleans, La. Is now 
living at Oakland, Cal., and doing business in San Francisco. 
Has his second wife, Geraldine Gager, with three sons and 
two daughters. He left the Virginia Military Institute to 
go into the ( 'onfederate ami}' ; where he was engaged mostly 
ii, the signal service with General Polk's corps. After the 
war he married Patsy Compton (sister of Robert, who married 
his own sister Donna), and she and her first infant were 
buried at the same time. 

From the Richmond Dispatch, of date April 24, 11)00. 
we copy the notice of [Mrs. B. B. ]\Liiior's death : 

MRS. B. B. MIXOR DEAD. 

SlIK PASSES AWAY AI-TKlf A BRIEF ILLXESS. 

Mrs. Virginia ]\[aury Otey [Minor, wife of Dr. Benjamin 
Blake Minor, died at her home, jSTo. 520 West Grace street, 
last night, after an illness of short duration of pneumonia. 

Deceased was in the seventy-eighth year of her age. She 
was the eldest child of the Right Rev. James H. Otev, I). D., 
the Bishop of Tennessee, but a native of Bedford County, Va. 
Just after the completion of her education at "the Columbia 
Female Institute," of which her father was the founder, he 
brought her to Virginia for the purpose of restoring, at the 
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, her health, impaired by 
earnest study, and of her visiting his and her mother's 
brothers, in Lynchburg and Petersburg. It was in the latter 
city that she first met the young lawyer who became her life 
companion for fifty-eight years. At the time of their enuage- 



90 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Dieiit he removed to the city of Kichmond, and pursued his 
l)rofession here for one year before marriage. 

When she, a beautiful and brilliant bride, arrived here, 
in the summer of 1842, she was most cordially received by 
the very best people of Richmond. She was a fine musician 
and an exquisite vocalist, and played upon and sang to the 
harp and guitar as well as the piano. She was also a spirited 
and pleasing writer in prose and verse. 

Before her graduation she was a contributor to the 
magazine of the Columbia Institute, called The Guardian. 
She was a contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger, 
and gave some assistance in the editorial department during 
some absences of her husband. She was the author of the 
"Prize-Tale, Stephano Oolonna," and several others. She 
assisted her husband in his educational work in Staunton, 
Jiichmond, and St. Louis, Mo. 

Before her removal to the University of Missouri she 
took an active part in whatever interested the ladies of Rich- 
mond, and particularly in the efforts of the Mount Vernon 
Association, to purchase the home of ^Yashington. She, with 
a part of her children, returned to Richmond in 1S84, and 
liad resided here ever since. 

On the 26th of May, 1S92, she celebrated her golden 
wechling, which was largely attended by the friends of herself 
and family. 

For several years past she had been an invalid, but her 
malady only endeared her the more to her family and friends, 
jind yet it was an unexpected attack of pneumonia which 
rloscd licr long and interesting life. 

]\or husband, B. B. Minor, and five children — Dr. B. B. 
Minor, Jr., of Texas; William P. .Minor, of Michigan; 
Misses Viohi, Jane, and Zelle Minor, of Richmond — survive 
her. togetlier with jMrs. G. R. Frost, B. L. ]\rinor. and Vir- 
ii'inia S. l\Iinor, her grandchildren, and (me sister, Mrs. Comp- 
ton. of Washington. 

Tlio Inncral arraniicnients have not been made. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 91 



REV. JAMES YOUXG. 

A. D. 1844-1846. Rev. James Young succeeded Rev. 
]VJr. Yeager in 1844^ bringing with liim a wife and several 
children, the youngest of whom, if not born here, was bap- 
tized here, for there is a tradition that when the name of 
Georo-e Washinjiton was sue,'a'ested to Mr. Youne;, he demur- 
red, on the plea "that too many George Washingtons had 
been hanged." In further evidence of his character, a letter 
written by him to one of his former parishioners has been 
kindly granted for use in these pages. It was written to the 
late Colonel Wm. E. Ashley on the occasion of his marriage 
with the beautiful Miss Fanny Grafton, and is here 
transcribed : 



Berlin, Worcester County, Md., December 7, 1846. 

Dear Will — I was truly gratified by the intelligence of 
your marriage, communicated by my cherished friend, Mr. 
Beebe, in a letter received from him a few days ago."^ I trust 
that both yourself and Mrs. Ashley will allow me to offer my 
heartfelt congratulations on this happy consummation, and 
assure you of my prayers and desires for the continued hap- 
piness and prosperity of both in your new relationship. May 
God, our Heavenly Father, bless your union, and make it 
tributary to the temporal and eternal welfare of both. For 
the dear girls, to whom you stand in the relation of husband 
and brother,- I have ever entertained the affection also of a 
brother. Their happiness secured would add to mine, however 
distant I might be from them, and the consciousness that in 
this union the happiness of one of the little band was made 

1. The late Roswell Beebe. who married Miss Eliot, half-sister of the bride. 
Mr. Beebe lived in a large, handsome brick residence fronting on Markham 
.afreet, on the ground now occmiied by the post office. Oazi'tti' building, 
and H. t,. Rp-Trners insurance building. It was p.ainted white, and surrounded 
on all sides by trees of forest growth. 

2. Fanny and Harriet Grafton, afterwards Mrs. Richard Fatherly. 



92 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

sure, so far as happiness belongs to this life, afforded nie and 
my wife the sincerest and most lively pleasure and satisfac- 
tion. It would have added greatly to my gratification had 
I been present to officiate on the occasion^, and still more to 
have enrolled you both as meinbers of the body of Christ our 
Lord. This, I trust, will be done for you by some other in 
good time, and that you and yours will ever be found on the 
side of righteousness and truth. Do not leave the Church 
to which your hearty preference hitherto has led you ; but 
let that preference only give wav to princij^le, which shall 
draw the bond of connection closer until you become fully 
incorporated with the great body of the elect from every 
tongue and kindred under the whole heaven. And may every 
blessing in the gift of Him, from whom cometli every good 
and perfect gift, descend u])<)n you and abide with you always. 
My wife joins me in love and congratulations, and sends her 
warmest love to you and the dear girls, your sisters,^ and to 
Mrs. Beebe^"* and in affectionate remembrance to your 
esteemed mother and sister,'"* to whose kindness during the 
illness of our little boy, we owe so much. I assure you that 
when we look back upon our residence in Little Rock, now 
that all the asperities of a ])ortion of my experience there are 
worn off, we discover man\ bright and cheering pages of its 
history that will ever keep o])en a warm place in our hearts 
for the wilds of Arkansas, or rather, the warm hearts that 
exist there, and if ever it pleases God to put me in possession 
of the means I shall see you all again before 1 die, God will- 
ing. I find pretty much the same effect following my efforts 
to make known the gos])el in the C-hurch everywhere it has 
been my privilege to ])reach. 1 have a small parish of about 
fifty comnuinicants, composed of farmers, traders and ])ro- 
fessional men, with their families, and am getting to be quite 
a lion among them. My rough-hewn, straightforward, back- 
woods style seems to tell powerfidly upon them all. the most 



.3. Miss Carrie Eliott, afterwards Mrs. D. C. Fulton, and Miss Harriet Grafton, 
afterwards Mrs. Richard Fatherly. 

4. Formerly Miss Eliott. 

5. Mrs. Chi'ster Ashley, and Miss F.nnnv Aslilev. aflorwarrts Mrs A F. 
]■ I'lM-inan. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 93 

intelligent and the most illiterate alike, and 1 hope for good, 
both to the people and the Church, from the divine blessing 
upon my eiforts in this pleasant, but secluded nook. Re- 
member me affectionately to Mrs. Henderson •'^ and to your 
grandpa and ma,'^ to Mrs. Ringo and Mrs. Trapnall, and to 
all our friends in the Rock, and believe me, dear Will, 
Yours aifectionately, 

JAS. YOUXG."- 



GENERAL AXD ^[RS. WILLIAM ELIOT ASHLEY. 

(leiiernl und Mrs. Willitdn Eliot Ashley were the first 
citi/ens uiiited in marriage in the first Episcopal Church, 
Oct'iber :!(», 1S4(;, althougli one other couple is reported to 
have l)een wedded there, in passing through the city. 

(leTieral .Vshley was the eldest son of Hon. Chester 
-Ashley, United States Senator from Arkansas, and Mary W. 
Eliot, his V7ife, of Missouri. He married Frances Grafton, 
(l.'ingliter of Joseph Dana Grafton, of St. Genevieve, Mo., 
and Marv Lewis Eliot, his wife. The bride and groom 
were of a common ancestry and were distantly related. 

The name of William xVshley was the synonym of kind- 
ness, courtesy and culture. His genial temperament and 
quick sympathy caused his friends to be legion. In beauty 
of feature and symmetry of form Fanny Grafton, his wife, 
was acknowledged to be peerless. She had fine literary taste, 
and as a conversationalist was es])eeially attractive. As she 
advanced in years her graces of spirit crowned and sanctified 
all other charms, and disclosed to her friends the most endear- 
ing aspects of her character. Both have passed beyond the 
silent river, leavinc' a memorv that will h^nti' hf" cherished bv 



6. Sister of Mrs. Chester Ashley. 

7. Mr. and Mrs. Eliott. 

■'By courtesy of the late Mrs. Wm. E. Ashley. 



94 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

all who knew thorn. Of the live children born to theni^ only 
one danghter, Frances Ann, afterwards Mrs. Clifton S. Gray, 
snrvives. 

THE FIRST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

A. D. 1843-1873. The bnilding was a simple parallelo- 
gram. Imilt in brick, withont transepts or vestry. There 
were two aisles and two entrances from the west. The win- 
dows wer(^ made with the pointed arch, pertaining to the 
gothic style of architectnre. In the eastern part was the 
chancel, as is customary with all Episcopal Churches. This 
was enclosed with a circular railing, where a pulpit, placed 
within it, was reached by a short flight of steps. A reredos, 
carved in walnut, also of gothic design, was placed against 
the eastern wall, with the creed and commandments inscribed 
on a blue ground. On December, 3 843, Rev. Mr. Paradise, 
of Philadel])liiii, j)r(^8ented the silver communion service. On 
either side of the chancel were two wide pews. Those on 
the south side were occupied by the treasurer and secretary of 
State, :\lr. J. H. Crease and Mr. S. M. Weaver, with their 
families. Hon. Samuel M. Weaver, of JSTcav Orleans, La., 
came to Little Rock in 1840 and was Secretary of the State 
of Arkansas in ISGO. He M-as not a Church official, but his 
family attended the services regularly in the first Church. 
He married ]\Lary Eliza Rose, of Roseville, Ark. They had 
five children : (1 ) Omer R. Weaver, who lost his life at the 
battle of Springfield, Mo., August 10, 1861. The Confed- 
erate Camp of United Veterans perpetuates his name. {'2) 
Horace Boardman, deceased. (3) George Vance, married 
Alice Com])ton, now deceased. Their son, George, married 
M;iud Samstag. (4) Samuel :\Iontoomerv, married Effie 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 95 

Coleman, deceased. (5) Mary, married Benjamin Johnson 
Field, deceased. Two of their children, Marj and Mildred, 
died in infancy. Four survive their father: Benjamin 
Johnson, Omer Weaver, Leila, and Samuel Weaver Field. 
As the Rector was compelled to robe in the presence of the 
con<;Tegation, after about eight years passed, there was 
l)uilt, during" the incumbency of Bev. Andrew F. Free- 
man, a Avooden tower on the western front. A Vestry 
room was arranged on the first floor, where the Bector robed 
and entered the Church from the outside, from which a nar- 
row staircase led up to the second floor. This opened on the 
organ loft, which was sustained by two large columns rising 
fi'om the nave, and from it the staircase led up higher to the 
Ix'lfry in the tower, from which a fine view of the city was 
had. ^Vn organ and bell were placed in the loft and tower 
later. This Church was located in the center of three lots, 
which were enclosed with a wooden fence. One magnificent 
oak of indigenous growth stood on the west, in comj^any with 
the tower, which it overlooked as a loving guardian. In 
the heart of the tree about six feet from the ground was a 
small natural hollow, which served as a depository for the 
Churcli keys. .Vs none but liahitucs and the sexton were in 
])ossession of the secret a bank could not have been safer. 
One of the succeeding rectors. Dr. J. T. Wheat, conceived and 
perfected a plan of supplying the Churchyard with shade, 
Avhicli was that the head of each family should ])lant an ever- 
green for each child in the family within the enclosure and an 
elm or maple on the outside as a border for the pavement. 
All these trees which had grown into the afi^ections of the 
^'hurch people, including the tower oak, were burned along 
with the Church on Sunday night, September 2S, 1S73. ^Tot 
until lS!)o wore these trees replaced l»y Bev. Wallace 



96 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

C'ariirthaii. Later Dr. Caiitrellj Senior Warden, had tlieni 
boxed for preservation and iron hitching j)osts established. 
])ur this is anticipating. 



KEV. WILLIAM T. SAUXDEKS. 

A. D. 1824-1857. licr. William T. Saunders succeeded 
the Ivev. James Yonng as missionary minister at Christ 
Church, which oitice he tilled not longer than two years. lie 
is described by those Avho remember him as a grave, taciturn, 
shy man, though an interesting talker and intelligent preacher 
when the barrier of his constitutional diffidence was overcome. 
He went from here to Apalachicola, Ela., where he was Rec- 
tor of Trinity Church for seventeen years. He married 
while there Eliza ]\Iorton, who was born January 24, 1^24, 
in Xew York V\X\. In the year l^iCT he published a snuill 
volume called ""The Fasloi-'s Wife." or "Memoirs of E. M. 
S.," whom he had the misfortune to lose after prolonged suf- 
feriiig, boi-ne with the heroism of a Christian martyr. Their 
children were John Alorton, William Lawi-ence, Walter 
Burns, Robert Duncan, and Jane Morton. The last was 
named for his deceased wife's devoted sister, whom he after- 
wards nuirried. 

At that time the family of Judge William Iluine Field 
was conspicuous in the early Church here. Judge Field was 
a native of Brunswick County, \'a., and canu^ from Tennessee 
to Arkansas in Ai)ril of 1S43. His wife was Mary Amanda 
Flournoy, of Giles County, Tenn. He was twenty years 
judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, which included Pulaski 
County, Ark. Mary FJiza Field was their second child 
and eldest daughter. On February 3, 184G, she was mar- 
ried t(. Wni. V. OHm-ci-. by Bishop Freeman, at the family 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 97 

residence, on the corner of Holly (Eighth street) and Scott 
streets, where the eldest son, Wni. IJnnie Field (:^d), with 
his family, still resides. 

One son, Enstis Field Officer, was the only child of this 
marriage. Air. Officer died ahout live years afterwards. In 
1857 Mrs. Othcer was married to ]\Ir. Gilbert Knap]), in 
Christ Clinrch, by Kev. Andrew F. Freeman. This Avorthy 
and highly esteemed pair has for years resided at their com- 
modions home, bnilt in colonial style, on corner of Rector 
avenue and Chestnut (Seventh) street, where the propliet's 
chamber was usually occupied. Bishop Lay, Bishop Pierce, 
with their families, and the Rev. T. 1>. Lee, all knew Mr. and 
Mrs. Knapp as the incomparable host and hostess. They 
now reside at their farm, Toltec station, a place celebrated for 
the Indian antiquities that have been obtained from the In- 
dian mounds on the place. A lovely little daughter, Myra 
Flournoy, was born to them, who became a feature of interest 
to the towii with her quaint sayings and earnest questions, 
and was lamented by all when the angel of death came to take 
her from the life she adorned. There was always a dainti- 
ness of fancy and speech, an exquisite delicacy of thought, 
that caused Mrs. Knapp to be called aesthetic and this was her 
patronymic for the first ladies' literary club of this citv, of 
which she was the sponsor, so to s})eak, and Mrs. Rufus T. 
Polk, the founder. This mantle of refinement that was better 
proof against assault than a coat of mail, Mrs. Knapp has 
transferred to the club she named, which is acknowledged to 
be the most refined in the city, during the seventeen years of 
its existence. Her sisters, Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Lennox, 
both dead, and her nieces, Mrs. Crockett, Mrs. Andrew 
Hunter, Misses Xannie, Jenny, Zaida, and Ernest, Afiss 
Adelina Lennox and brother have all been devoted mend)ers 
of Christ Church from infancv. 



98 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

A. D. 1900. On May 20, 1000, the death of Mrs. 
Knapp's son, Mr. Eustis Field Officer, was announced as the 
result of injuries received ]\Iay 1-1, by falling from the 
Choctaw bridge in East Little Rock. From the Arkansas 
Democrat of 30th, is transferred the following notice: 

INTELLECTUALLY STROIs^G. 

TRIBUTE TO EUSTIS F. OFFICER. WHOSE FUNERAL OCCURS 

TO-DAY. 

The funeral of the late Eustis F. Officer will occur at 
4 o'clock this afternoon from Christ Churchy llev. G. Gordon 
Snicade officiating. 

Mr. Officer was born in Little Rock April 0, 1840. He 
was a man of high intellectual attainments, a graduate of the 
Washington and Lee University of Virginia, where he gradu- 
ated with the highest honors, receiving the Robertson prize 
medal. He was j)articularly proficient in mathematics and 
attained a high rank in civil engineering. He was employed 
in this capacity with the Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt 
roads, and in the river works of the United States govern- 
ment in the Arkansas and White rivers, and was in charge 
of the government works in Pine Bluff. Lie also taught in 
the public schools of this city and was at one time principal 
of the Peabody Lligh School. Of late he has been associated 
with his stepfather, Gilbert Knapp, in cotton planting and 
merchandising at Toltee. His death was a particularly sad 
one, and is a great blow to his bereaved parents, to whom he 
was most affectionately devoted. Mr. Officer was a man of 
many noble qualities, a kind and affectionate son, and a gen- 
erous and faithful friend. The members of his family have 
tlie sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends in their sad 
bereavement. 




RT. REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON FREEMAN, D. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 99 



ET. REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON FREEMAN, D. D. 

A. D. 1635-1789. Ui. Rev. George Washington Free- 
■man. D. D., Second Missionary Bishop of Texas, Arkansas 
and the Indian Territory of the SouthAvest, was a descendant 
of Edmond Freeman, who arrived in the ship "Abigail" from 
London in 1635, and located at Sandwich, Mass. In 17^29 he 
removed to the State of Connecticut and settled in Mansfield. 
George Washington Freeman was born in Sandwich, Mass., on 
the l;3tli of Jnne, 17^9. He was the twelfth child of Dr. 
Nathaniel Freeman and Tryphosa Cotton, of Killingly, 
Conn., who were married May 5, 1763. The wife died July 
11, 1796, aged 53. Dr. Freeman was twice married, and 
the subject of this memoir was the youngest child of his first 
wife. From "The Life of Bishop Freeman, of Arkansas," 
by the Rev. John N. Norton, D. I)., is quoted the following 
record found in his father's commonplace book: "George 
had read the Bible throagli, wlien between six and seven 
years of age." * * * j)^ YyeQuy^n l^ad a very large 
family and he had little to bequeath his children beyond the 
precious example of his own useful, honored, patriotic. Chris- 
tian life. Our little hero was remarkable from his earliest 
years, for his amiable disposition, obedience to his parents, 
respect for the aged, a generous heart and a scrupulous regard 
for the truth and right. During one of the Bishop's latest 
visits to his native place, he expressed a desire to call upon 
some of the elders of the place, and among them was an excel- 
lent Quaker lady, whose memory was now most active, as. 
is often the case with the aged, in recalling the scenes and 
incidents of early life. On entering the room where she sat, 
the Bishop approached and gave her his hand. She not 



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100 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

ap]u';irii)g to recollect liiiii, lie said: "Don't you know me?" 
Slie looked intently for a moment, when, her face brighten- 
ing, she replied : ''(>anst thou be he — he, that good little 
George C The Bishop was evidently both amus,ed and' 
iiratitied. She recollected him from a natural mark of a 
rasj^berry upon one of his eyelids. . She remembered very 
well that, whilst other boys of his age visited her father's cele- 
brated orchard uninvited, "George was a good boy, and 
always asked permission." '^ * * 

"It was not JBishop Freeman's privilege to be trained 
up in the bosom of the Church at whose altars he so faithfully 
ministered, his parents being rigid Congregationalists. Hi& 
Puritan descent will account for some of his peculiarities of 
opinion, especially his very strict notions in regard to worldly 
amusements. It seems, however, that althouoh Geor2;e Avas 
thus breathing an atmosphere most unfriendly to the growth 
of Episcopacy, he early formed an acquaintance with the 
Prayer Book, and learned to love it." 

This Prayer Book and Bishop Ravenscroft, of Xorth 
Carolina, converted him from (''alvinism to Episcopacy. He 
became a most zealous and devoted Churchman, although he 
was associated in teaching in Xorth Carolina with his brother, 
a Presbyterian minister, during his early manhood. 

A. D. 1818. in ISIS he married, while yet a layman, 
a most excellent and accomplished woman — Mrs. Ann Yates 
Gholsoii, of \'ii-giiiia. 

A. D. 1826 1827. On the Sth of October, 1820, Mr. 
Freeman was ordained Deacon by Bishop Ravenscroft, in 
the E])iscopal Chai)el, at Raleigh, in the thirty-seventh year 
of his age, and alxMit eight months afterward was admitted to 
the Priesthood by Bishoj) Ravenscroft, on the 20th of May, 
1S27. The service was held in Christ Church, Xcwbern,, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 101 

iST. C. When Bishop Ravenscroft died at Raleigh, N. C, 
''Dr. Freeman ministered at his bedside and, by the Bishop's 
special reqnest, read the bnrial service over his remains." Dr. 
Freeman's first field of labor embraced Washington, Dur- 
ham's Creek, and Zion Chapel, North Carolina. At the time 
of his marriage, before he became a member of any Christian 
body, his wife was a pious and consistent member of the 
Methodist connnunion, to which she adhered, "after he 
obtained Baptism, Confirmation and Communion in the 
Church." But in a year or two, of her ow^n accord, after a 
diligent examination of the claims of the Church, she was 
confirmed by Bishop Moore, of Virginia, and was thence- 
forward a devoted Churchwoman. 

A. D. 1839-1841. Dr. Freeman labored eleven years at 
Christ Church, Raleigh, N. C, wdiere he left a host of loving 
and appreciative friends.* From there he removed to Colum- 
bia, Tenn., Avhere he officiated more than a year, when the 
feeble health of his wife obliged him to make a change. He 
next labored at Trinity Church, Swedesborough, N^. J., 
which place he held from April to ISTovember, 1841. He 
then accepted a call to Immanuel Church, ZSTew Castle, Del. 
"At the General Convention of 1844 it was determined that 
a Bishop should be appointed for tlie Southwest, and Dr. 
Freeman having been nominated, he was chosen, almost by 
acclamation. A delegate to that convention who sat in the 
same seat with him, thus graphically describes the eft'ect pro- 
duced upon the good man when his name was announced by 
the secretary as having been sent down from the House of 
Bishops for the action of tlie Lower House: 

" 'Dr. Freeman, Avliose hearing was a little impaired. 



*He received the honorary degree of D. D. from Chapel Hill, the Uni- 
versity of North Carolina, in 18.'?9. 



102 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH, 

loaned forward, witli liis hand behind his ear. His head 
began to sink as his Christian name was uttered; and bj the 
time that the secretary iiad spoken his surname, it had 
(h-ooped below the top of the pew, and v/hen the message was 
Inlly concluded, he had grasped his hat and was passing out 
of the Church. On reaching his boarding house, he was seized 
with a chill, which was succeeded by high fever, and he was 
not able to leave his room for several days.' 

Here the exalted piety of his wife took effect, as the fol- 
lowing incident, related by Rev. Dr. Xorton, illustrates: 

"Mrs. Freeman's claim to distinction among the many 
excellent clergymen's wives in tlie Church rests mainly upon 
her missionary zeal. She was not only ready to give, ac- 
cording to her ability, to the support of missions, but was will- 
ing to sacrifice (and she did actually sacrifice) her health, 
and the most of her worldly comforts for the supposed good 
of the cause. When her husband was called to the Mission- 
ary Episcopate of the Southwest, they were delightfully and 
most happily situated in a parish that perhaps both would 
have preferred to almost any other in the (Jhurch, and they 
had just completed their arrangements for, as they fondly 
ho])ed, a lifelong residence among agreeable and most aft'ec- 
tionate parishioners. The call came upon him like a clap 
of thunder, and he felt that he could not accept it ; and, after 
twenty-four hours' deliberation with ])rayer, he had made up 
l:is mind that he must decline it. The distressed look with 
which the announcement of his purpose was received by her, 
and the alarming inquiry which she made, 'Are you sure you 
will not be found fighting against God if you decline?' 
lirought him to a pause ; and, aided by the remonstrance and 
persuasion of others, led him ultimately to suffer himself to 
l>nt on the niitr(>, although he knew it to be crowned with 
thoi'ns." 

A. D. 1844. He was consecrated as the IMissionary 
Bii^liop (.f Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory of the 
Southwest in St. Peter's Churcli. Philadelphia, on Saturday, 



THE AKIn'ALS of CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 103 

October 20, 184-4. The venerable Bishop Chase acted as 
coiisecrator, being assisted by Bishops Doane, Otey, Hen- 
shaw, Kemper, Polk, Lee, Whittingham, Elliott and Johns. 
''An able and appropriate sermon was preached by the Bishop 
of Georgia, from Isaiah liv. 2, 3." 

A. D. 1875. "It may be remarked that during the four- 
teen years of his Episcopate, his duties caused him to traverse 
a territorial region that is now (1875) served by five bishops, 
who, all, no doubt with good cause, complain of the vast 
extent of their several Dioceses. Bishop Freeman traveled 
on horseback, over the territorial extent of all these five Dio- 
ceses, after he was three score years old, the hearty and robust 
young clergymen who attempted to travel with him, breaking 
down by their efforts. Thus much may be said for Bishop 
Freeman's sturdy New England stock, and it may be added 
for his old England stock." 

The best account of his Episcopal labors is given by the 
Bishop himself, a portion of which is here appended : 

"Having yielded to the solicitation of Bishop Otey, that 
I would undertake a visitation to the Churches in Mississippi, 
on my way from Texas to Arkansas, I was obliged to confine 
my labors in Arkansas to those portions of the State in which 
our missionary operations have hitherto been conducted. 
This, however, was nearly all that I expected, from the late- 
ness of the season wdien I set out, to be able to accomplish on 
my first visitation. The points visited were Little Rock, 
Van Buren, Fort Smithj Fayetteville, Cane Hill, and the 
headwaters of White River. At Little Rock I found our 
missionary laborino- under a slight and temporary discour- 
agement, owing to the late strenuous, and but too successful 
efforts of one of the many modern sect's. And, regarding this 
af the most important station in the State, Little Rock being, 
as yet, the largest town, and, at the same time, the seat of 
government, I yielded to the entreaties of the Rev. Mr. 
Young, the missionary, and many of the principal members 



104 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

of the congregation, and remained with them ten or twelve 
days, preaching ten times, and confirming, on two separate 
occasions, nine pei'sons. 

Notwithstanding the discouraging circumstances just 
alluded to, however, the Church is growing here steadily, and 
in a highly satisfactory ratio of progression. The services 
are well attended ; the congregation, embracing a fair pro- 
portion of the principal citizens, is large for the place, and 
increasing, and the missionary commands the respect and 
esteem of his parishioners ; and were the worldly circum- 
stances of the community at all prosperous, we might expect 
this soon to be stricken from the list of missionary stations. 
But, unfortunately, the people are poor and unable to do 
much for the su])port of a minister, and the probability is 
that for some time to come a full missionary appropriation 
will be necessary. From Little Rock I was compelled, from 
the loAv stage of water in tlie river, to make the journey to 
Van Buren and the other points visited, on horseback, a dis- 
tance, going and returning, of 450 miles ; so that much time 
v\'as necessarily occupied in traveling. To Van Buren I was 
accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Young, and was there met by 
the Rev. Mr. Scull, from Fayetteville. I found here no 
communicants, no candidates for confirmation, and, I may 
add, no congregation proper. The missionary has oificiated 
at this point, on alternate Sundays, in a house of worship 
common to all religious bodies, but to a mixed assemblage, of 
wlidui it is difficult to say what number, if any, consider 
themselves as Episcopalians. We held services here five 
times. I preached thrice, and, at the request of the mission- 
ary, baptized one adult and six children. At Fort Smith, 
where the missionary also officiates^ as I understand, on 
alternate Sundays, I found the same state of things existing 
as at Van Buren. To that place I Avas accompanied by the Rev. 
Messrs. Young, MclManus, and Scull, and we held two ser- 
vices, which vjvro well attended, particularly by the officers 
of the T"^nited States army, many of whom were present in 
attr'iidanco upon a court-martial. T preached on both occa- 
'^ions. and have reason to believe^ that our services left a o-ood 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 105 

impression. From Van Buren I proceeded, attended by the 
Kev. Mr, Scull, to Favetteville, Washington County. At 
this place I remained, with the exception of two days at Cane 
Hill, enjoying the hospitality of Mr. Scull ten days, including 
two Sundays, having been prevented by high waters from 
getting to the headwaters of White River (as I intended) to 
pass the latter of them. I preached in Fayetteville, in a 
schoolroom, six times, and administered the Holy Eucharist 
to ten persons, of whom only six or seven belong to our com- 
munion. At Cane Hill, in a small storeroom, hastily fitted up 
for the occasion by the personal labor of General Campbell 
and Captain Chew, I preached twice and confirmed three 
persons, viz : Captain Chew, his wife, and their oldest son 
(originally from Fredericksburg, Va.). The Church at this 
point consists at present of but two families, General Camp- 
bell's and Captain Chew's; but more devoted, warndiearted 
Church people I have seldom met with. The services liere 
were well attended, and it was evident that a good, I hope, a 
lasting, impression was made upon the plain people, of whom 
the congregation was composed, and I felt encouraged to 
believe that the regular ministrations of one who could give 
himself to the work would be eminently fruitful in this inter- 
esting neighborhood. To insure the keeping alive, in some 
measure, of the flame which has been here enkindled by the 
occasional visits of the Rev. Mr. Scull, T licensed Captain 
Chew as Lay Reader, who has promised to officiate every Sun- 
day in their little hired room until their loo- Church, which 
they are about to commence, is finished. There are now in 
this neighborhood five communicants. 

"At the lieadAvaters of White River (Madison C\3unty, 
thirty-five miles southeast of Fayetteville), where I only spent 
the night, I confirmed, in his own house, at the family altar, 
William McElroy. He and his wife are both communicants, 
and I was pleased to observe, are scrupulous in the daily per- 
formance of family devotion. In this neighborhood there 
are three or four communicants. Among them is Colonel 
Sumner, a patriarch of more than four score years, an emi- 
grant from Vermont. The prospects for the establishment 



106 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

and spread of the Church in this Northwestern and moun- 
tainous region of Arkansas appear, confessedly, not to be 
flattering. Yet, it would, I think, scarcely become us to 
abandon the field, and give up those few sheep in the wilder- 
ness which liave heretofore been folded^ with so much care, 
to the mercy of the wolves of the mountain, scattered though 
they be. Though the progress of the Church in that region 
must, from the nature of things, be very slow for some time 
to come, yet I doubt not that the labors of an able and prudent 
missionary, self-denying and capable of enduring hardness 
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, would in a few years be 
found productive of much fruit to the honor and praise of 
God's holy name, and the edification of His Church. I 
have, as yet, visited no part of the Indian Territory, but pur- 
pose visiting some portions of it in the fall." 

A. D. 1847. At the General Convention of 1S4T the 
Bisliop's first triennial report shows how he had improved the 
three years that had elapsed since his consecration. ''Besides 
visiting all the Churches and missionary stations within his 
jurisdiction thrice, he lias visited Columbia and Brazoria, in 
Brazoria County, Texas, twice; Richmond and Velasco, in 
the same State, once ; Cane Hill, Fayetteville, and Batesville, 
in Arkansas, twice; Washington, Spring Hill, Louisville, 
ilclciu!, Colund)ia, and Xapoleon, in the same State, once; 
and Fort Gibson, in the Indian Territory, twice. That in 
m. st of these places he has held confirmation, and in all of 
them })erf()rmed divine service, and preached at each visita- 
tion ; that ho has confirmed 1()() persons, baptized seventy- 
eight cliihli'cii and ten adults, consecrated one Church, and 
preached more than 200 sermons. To this, he would add 
that in the performance of this amount of duty, he has been 
compelled to travel more than 1 S,000 miles. The number of 
c'ininiunu-ants within his jurisdiction he reports to be, as 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 107 

nearly as lie has been ablj to ascertain, 200 in Texas, and 
seventy in Arkansas ; whole number 270." 

There is another incident related by Rev. Dr. Norton, 
which reveals one striking characteristic of this upright man. 
At the General Convention of ]856, a meeting of the Sunday 
School Union and Church Book Society was held in St. 
Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, during which matters of 
vital importance to the interests of the Sunday School Union 
v/ere discussed. 

''After several hours' debate the practical part began 
with the contribution of money for its relief and benefit. The 
Bishop of Maryland was instantly on his feet and stated what 
he would give ; nay, more, with the energetic promptness 
peculiar to himself, he laid down the money then and there. 
Bishop de Laneey and the two Bishops Potter, and others, 
followed in his wake. Then a portly, dignified clergyman, 
about 6 feet in height, of robust and vigorous appearance, 
though evidently advancing in years, went to the secretary's 
table and put his name down for $100. It was Bishop Free- 
man. ^AMien this was done, he took his hat and cane (the 
cane which Bishop Ravenscroft had carried in his day) and 
quietly passed out through the Vestry door." 

Bishop Freeman was greatly sustained in his mission- 
ary labors by his excellent wife, whom the annalist affection- 
ately remembers as a punctilious Churchwoman, a stately, 
refined, and cultivated woman and worthy helpmeet for a 
Bishop. When Bishop Freeman first located at Little Rock 
he took a suite of rooms in one of the handsome brick build- 
ings erected by Charles Rapley, merchant, whose name is on 
the first Vestry list, on the north side of Markham street, 
between Scott and Main streets. The first floors of these 
buildings were occupied by dry goods merchants, the second 



108 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

and tliird floors were arranged with spacious parlors and 
chambers in suites, with galleries surrounding the inner 
courts. The staircases to these stories opened from hallways 
on the street, with hahistrades of mahogany, obtained from 
Cuba, where Mr. Rapley's father had amassed a fortune. 
These buildings were destroyed by fire several years later. 
Charles Rapley was a member of the first Vestry of Christ 
Church, but afterwards became a leading member of the 
newly organized congregation of "the Disciples of Christ," 
\vhieh the BishojD denominates "one of the modern sects." 
I lis wife^ who was Ann Bailor Field^ also seceded from the 
Episcopal Churchy and their children were brought up in 
the new faith. The Bishop, his wife, and son occupied a 
suite of rooms on the third floor of the eastern building, and 
were greatly appreciated by the other occupants of the build- 
ing, all of whom took board with the landlady, the widow 
Burnett. Mrs. Freeman was the widow of Hon. Thomas 
Gholson, of Gholsonville, Brunswick County, Va. She was 
the daughter of Colonel William Yates and granddaughter 
of Rev. Bartholomew Yates. 

A. D. 1817. 'Tlon. Thomas Gholson, son of Thomas 
Gholson, Sr., was born at Gholsonville, Va., and educated at 
William and Mary College, Virginia. He married Miss Ann 
Yates and was a member of Congress from 1812 to 1 8 IG. He 
died in 1817 or 1818, four or five years after the receipt of 
tlie injury from a gunshot wound of the chest, in the war of 
1812, so-called. He was acting, during a recess of the Con- 
gress, as volunteer aid, on the staff of some general, whose 
name escapes mo. He left a wife, two sons and a daughter— 
my father, William Yates Gholson, Thomas, and Gary Ann. 
My gran(hn..th('r, Mrs. Ann Yates Gholson, moved to 
Rnlcigh, X. C, after the death of her husband, and there met 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 109 

and married George Washington Freeman, who was Rector 
of a parish in that city. He was afterward made Bishop of 
Arkansas and Texas. Soon after his consecration he 
removed his residence to Little Rock, Ark., where my grand- 
mother and he died."* 

The children of Hon. Thomas Gholson and Ann Yates, 
his wife, were : 

Hon. ^ym. Yates Gholson, late member of the Supreme 
bench of Mississippi ; Hon. Thomas Gholson, member of the 
Tennessee bar, and Cavy Ann, who married her cousin, a very 
promising lawyer of Petersburg, Va., and had two daughters, 
Georgie and Cary Ann Gholson. 

The children of Bishop Freeman and Ann Abates Ghol- 
son, his wife, were : 

A. D. 1819-1895. l. George Russell Freeman. Born 
December O, 1810, in Raleigh, X. C. ; married to Kate Wal- 
thall, of Holly Springs, Miss. She was the daughter of the 
late J. B. Walthall^ and sister of Edward Cary Walthall, 
the lately deceased United States Senator from Mississippi, 
who sat continuously in the Senate from January, 1894:, to 
March, 1895. He served in Confederate army in the Civil 
War as major-general. 

2. Andrew Field Freeman, afterwards Rector of 
dirist Church, Little Rock. 

A. D. 1826. 3. Charles Edward Freeman. Born 
October, 1826, in I^ewberne, !N^. C, of whom no further 
accounts have been obtained. 



♦Extract from a letter of response to a request of the annalist by Dr. S. C. 
Gholson, of Holly Springs, Miss. 



110 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



REV. ANDREW FIELD FREEMAN. 

A. D. 1822-1849. Her. Andrew Field Freeman suc- 
ceeded Rev. William T. Saunders in charge of Christ Church, 
in 1 S40, and served as the first elected Rector for nine years. 
]le was horn in Warrenton, N. i\, December 3, 1822, and was 
a graduate of the General Theological Seminary of New 
York, in 1845. Mr. Freeman was ordained Deacon and 
Priest by the Rt. Rev. Alfred Lee, D. D., of Delaware. The 
last ordination occurred in 1 845. He accompanied his parents 
to Little Rock, where^ on December 4, 1850, he married 
Frances Ann Ashley, only daughter of Hon. Chester Ashley, 
I'nited States Senator from Arkansas. This was an ideal 
union, and, Avhile it lasted, a blissful one. The Bishop and 
his son built a handsome residence on lots belonging to the 
bride on Holly (Eighth) and Cumberland streets, now owned 
by the widow of the late Hon. George H. Van Etten, a former 
niendx'i- of Christ Church Vestry. They furnished it com- 
fortably and tastefully for her occupation. She did not live 
to appropriate it, but died within the year, universally 
lamented, leaving a daughtei'. 

I>oth families Avere prostrated with grief at this sudden 
sinking of their ship of life, freighted with all that made life 
beautiful. Mrs. Bishop Freeman did not long survive. She 
liad been in failing health after exposures in a tour of visita- 
tion through Texas with her husband, and this great sorrow 
Avas too much for her strength. "On the 2Gtli of ]\rarch, 1856, 
the Rishoj) Ipft her, Avith hesitation and great reluctance, for 
a visitation of Texas, Avhich circumstances rendered liighly 
important, if not absolutely necessai-y. He shortened his 
x'isitation as niuch as ])ossible on her account; and after an 




REV. ANDREW FIELD FREEMAN. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. Ill 

absence of two months and tifteen Jays, returned, to find her 
on that sick bed from which she never arose. 

A. D. 1856. He arrived on Monday, 11th of June, and 
in a week from that day, June IS, her spirit took its flight 
from earth to ''brighter worlds on high.'" She died in the 
serene faith of a holy immortality. Her funeral took place 
on Wednesday morning, June 26, 1856, from the Church, the 
services being conducted by her husband and son, according 
to her own request. The scene was most pathetic. 

Both father and son being thus bereaved, the property 
on Eighth street was sold and a house on Fifth and Scott 
streets was purchased. Here the Bishop died April 29, 1S5S, 
in the seventieth year of his age. 

The beautiful tribute which the Kev. Dr. Norton quotes 
from Bishop Hawks's address to the Convention of Missouri 
in May, 1858, forms a most fitting conclusion to the memoir 
of this distinguished Bishop, who conferred upon the annalist 
the holy rite of confirmation, and claimed her highest 
reverence. 

"As a subject of deep interest to the Protestant Episco- 
j)al Church in these United States, and one which has called 
up very tender emotions in my bosom, I may now mention 
the recent departure from this life of the Rt. Rev. George 
Washington Freeman, D. D., our Missionary Bishop in the 
Southwest. At an advanced age, though not aged in his 
Episcopate, after thirteen years of hard and unceasing 
struggle for the Church in the desolate region assigned to 
him, a Christian Bishop has gone to rest. But to me, the 
departed was something more than a Christian Bishop. In 
my native town in North Carolina, he was one of the pre- 
ceptors of my early youth, before my entrance upon collegiate 
duties as a student of the University. Boys do not always 
remember with tenderness the teachers who have had the 
charge of their youth ; yet Vv'ill I say that the manliness, truth- 



112 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

fulness, and consistency of this good man claimed tlie love of 
nij boyhood — that manhood, with me, only mellowed that 
love into softer and yet deeper hues, until j)rofessional asso- 
ciation and sympathy fully proved to me that the affections 
of my boyhood had not been misplaced. There are those 
companions of my schoolboy days still living to whose bosoms 
the tidings of his death will bring like feelings to my own; 
for his fearless honesty, his hearty sincerity, his ceaseless 
fidelity, his Christian firmness^ and his unbending principle, 
were proverbial with us all. Well do I remember when T last 
met him at the time of our late General Convention in Phila- 
delphia. In company with another of his former pupils, I 
called upon him. We talked of former days. Among other 
things he showed us the staff upon which the godly and gifted 
Eavenscroft used to lean as he walked, and which had been 
given to him by one of his proselytes. What son of the 
Church does not reverence the name of Ravenscroft, the first 
Bishop of Xorth Carolina ? Yet, as we came away, we felt 
and rejoiced that the staff was still carried by one as honest 
and as true as Ravenscroft. Of the late good Bishop of the 
Southwest we may all say, 'he has fought a good fight, he has 
finished his course, he has kept the faith, henceforth there is 
laid up for him a crown of righteousness.' " 

On the day following his decease, the remains of Bishop 
Freeman were deposited in the same grave with those of his 
beloved wife. 

Jlis son, Rev. A. F. Freeman had marble tablets placed 
ill the north and south walls of the chancel of the first Church 
ill memory of his parents, which perished with the Church. 
In the new Church a Prayer Desk was contributed to the 
chancel furniture, of handsomely carved walnut, having a 
silver plate with this inscription : 

"In memory of Rt. Rev. George Washington Freeman, 
consecrated October 2(1, 1S44, died A])ril 20, 1S58." 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 113 

A. D. 1858. Four months after the death of his father, 
July 8, ISSJS, Rev. A. F. Freeman was married a second time 
to Susan E. Dunlop, daughter of James Dunlop, Esquire, of 
Petersburg, Va. 

Previous to this, he had resigned the Rectorship of 
Christ Church, Little Rock. His letter of resignation is 
here given :* 

Little Rock, Ark., May 3, 185S. 
To the ^Yardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock: 

Gentlemen — Impelled by the state of my health to relin- 
quish all Parochial duty for a season, I do hereby resign the 
Rectorship of Christ Church, to take effect from the 1st 
instant, which completes the hrst half of the ninth year of my 
Rectorship. 

Respectfully, 

ANDREW F. FREEMA:^. 

The reply of the Wardens and Vestry was as follows : 

Little Rock, May 5, 1858. . 

Reverend and Dear Sir — Having seen your letter of the 
3d instant, addressed to the AVardens and Vestry of Christ 
Church, of Little Rock, the undersigned beg leave to state, 
that while they sincerely sympathize with you in your pres- 
ent deep affliction, and acknowledge the propriety of your 
withdrawing for a season from the cares and labors incident 
to the Rectorship of said Church, yet having an abiding confi- 
dence in your ability to perform the duties of the charge 
advantageously to the cause of Christ and acceptably to the 
congregation when the remembrance of the afflicting dispen- 
sation shall have been softened by time and your health fully 
restored, which we hope may be the case at no distant period. 



*Thp annalist is indelited to tlip daughters of AA'arden John H. Crease for 
this letter. 



114 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

WO trust you will then find it agreeable to resume your pas- 
toral duties among us, and in the meantime retain your 
position as Rector of our Church. 

Very truly, your friends, etc., 

^ LUKE E. BARBER, 
JOHN II. CREASE, 

Wardens. 
DAlsHEL RliS^GO, 
THOMAS CHURCHILL, 
JOHN WASSELL, 
H. X. CASE, 
WM. B. WAIT, 
S. H. HEMPSTEAD, 
C^ F. M. POLAND, 
ROBERT CLEMENTS, 
WM. A. CANTRELL. 

A. D. 1862. Rev. Mr. Freeman went from here to 
Atlanta, Ga., from which place the annalist received a letter 
from him, dated April IS, 1S(]2, concluding with fhese 
words : 

. *'I should like above all things to look in upon you all 
ouce more. My own father and mother lie buried in your 
graveyard, and my child is amongst yon. You may be sure 
for these reasons, if for no other, my mind often fondly and 
sadly turns to Little Rock. You will have heard of our 
great victories before this reaches you. J\Iay God soon restore 
peace to our distracted land. With my kindest regards to 
3'our liusband and to your mother and sister, I remain, 
''Yours fMithfully, 

"A. F. FREEMAN." 

Later he went to Shell)yville, Ky., then to Vincennes, 
Lid., ;nid finally settled at Louisville, Ky., where he died in 
June, ISDC. 'rii(. daughtoi' referi-ed to in this letter was 
Mary Ashley Freeman, who married the Hon. Sterlint!; R. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 115 

Cockrill, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Arkansas. Their chiklren are: 

1. Ashley. Married Jennie, fourth daughter of Pro- 
fessor and Mrs. James Mitchelh 

2. Annie McDonald- Married Maxwell Coffin, presi- 
dent of the Bank of Little Ilock. 

3. Sterling R. CockriU. Xot married. 

4. Etnmett, (5) Onrland, (6) Freeman, minors. One 
infant daughter, Mary. died. There are two grandchildren, 
James Mitchell Cock rill and Margaret Coffin, who died 
early. 

Of the second marriage, a daughter also was born, 
Fanny Ashley, named for the first wife, who married Mr. 
Carothers, of Bardstown, Ky. 

Mr. Freeman was a person of studious habits and 
reserved manner, with a countenance of purity, which ob- 
tained for him the title of ''St. John" by his admirers. His 
simplicity and truth of character were often misconstrued 
into austerity, but with those who understood him, there was 
absolute confidence in the gentleness of his nature and kind- 
ness of purpose. The Church flourished greatly during his 
incumbency. 

The organist at this time was Dr. Ben F. Scull, who 
was a musician of first rank. His choir was composed of 
Miss Blanche Scott (afterwards Sokolski), Miss Laura 
Crease (Lewis), Miss Eliza Tucker (Beebe), Miss Mary 
Ellen Tucker (Ives-Strong), Miss Maggie Keyburn (Peay), 
and Miss Arbadoo Gibson (Farelly), Messrs. Wm. E. Ashley, 
D. C. Fulton, Henry Ashley, Arlow Farmin, and John 
Wassell. Dr. Scull afterwards married "Jamie," the 
second of the five beautiful blisses Revburn. 



116 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

A. D. 1858. The last ofilcial act of Et. Kev. G. W, 
Froenuni, as ^Missionary Bishop of Arkansas, occurred in 
Jannary, 1858, and is descrihed in a daily ])aper at Little 
Kock by an eyewitness, a copy of which lias been furnished 
the annalist, and apj^ears in the account given later in the life 
of Bishop Winglield.* 

A. D. 1 858. As has been related, Bishop Otey was ap- 
pointed to the office made vacant by the death of Bishop 
Freeman, by the Senior Bishop of the Church, Thomas 
("hurch Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Connecticut, in 
1858. In his visitation as BishojD of Arkansas during that 
yeai", his last jjerformance of the rite of confirmation took 
place. Mrs. Elvira Cuiirniins Adams was the last person 
confirmed in the first Episcopal Church. 

A. D. 1840-1842. She was the widow of Dr. W. W. 
Adams, a graduate of the medical college at Amherst, Mass., 
to whom she was married in 1842. He was for many years 
a practicing physician in Little Hock. She was born in 
Jefferson County, Ky., near Louisville, in 1820, and came to 
Arkansas in 1840. She had four distinguished brothers, 
William and Ebenezcr, shining lights at the bar of Little 
Rock before the war; Dr. David Cummins, a distinguished 
physician of Louisville, Ky., and John Cummins, who lost 
his life Avhile fighting for the independence of Texas. 

Her devotion to the Episcopal faith never wavered. She 
was a regular and generous contributor to the cause of the 
Cliurch. With refined grace of manner and well-stored 
mind, she was at all times an ornament to society. In the 
south wall of the new Church is a window, donated by her, 
representing our Lord as tlie great physician, healing the sick 
of the palsy, groujX'd with three other figures, in "Loving 
:Memory of W. W. Adams." Slie was a childless wife, but 

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THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 117 

several nieces and nephews snrvive, who will cherish her 
memory as an example of rare virtue. She died December 
31, 18i)8, and on Sunday afternoon was laid beside her hus- 
band in Mount Holly Cemetery, sincerely mourned by a legion 
of friends. 



MRS. ELIZABETH-RECTOR (BEALL) HEMPSTEAD. 

A. D. 1841-1858. Among the first accpiaintanees of the 
writer in Little Rock, in 1849, was Mrs. Elizabeth-Rector 
(Beall) Hempstead, wife of General S. LI. Hempstead, who 
lived on lower Markham street, then the fashionable residence 
street of the capital. She became the wife of General Samuel 
H. Hempstead at Little Rock in 1841, having formerly lived 
at Bardstown, Ky. General Hempstead was distinct in the 
galaxy of legal lights, that has been claimed to be the most 
brilliant in the records of the State. He was a Vestryman of 
the Church in 1858, during the Rectorship of Rev. A. F. Free- 
man. His beautiful wife was an acknowledged leader in 
society, where her influence for sincerity, kindliness, loyalty 
to her friends, and generous hospitality, which was nobly pro- 
moted by her husband, has been felt to this day. Later they 
purchased and occupied the large two-story brick house, built 
in colonial style, which crowned the hill on Walnut street 
(Fourth) in the eastern i)art of the city. This had been 
erected by Richard C. Byrd, president of Arkansas Senate in 
1848-1849, and acting governor of the State in the brief inter- 
regnum after the resignation of Governor Thomas S. Drew 
and the inauguration of his successor, John Selden Roane. 
Having renovated and embellished this home. General and 
Mrs. Hempstead made it one of the most elegant and attractive 
in the city. Not a vestige of it remains, except the site, a part 

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118 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

of which is now occupied by the Forest Grove SchooL General 
Hempstead died in 1862. His wife survived him several 
years, and the memory of this noble woman, whose deeds of 
charity were seldom known to other than her God, still lingers, 
to embellish that of the husband, whom she so sincerely 
mourned. To the emigrant camps, so frequently set like a 
white village in the valley below her home, she appeared as 
an angel of mercy, as she passed in and out, accompanied by 
her servant, bearing delicacies for the sick. A family of inter- 
esting children was born to this worthy pair : Beall, Carl, 
Albert, Fay, Roy, Lena, Lee, and Shelby, all of whom were 
baptized members of the Church. Of the three brothers who 
survive, Messrs. Beall, Fay, and Roy, Mr. Fay Hempstead, 
poet and historian, is the only one married. His wife was 
]\[iss Gertrude O'jSTeale, of Virginia. Their children are 
Carrie, Samuel, Lindsay, Evelyn, Janet, Beall, and Robert 
O'ISreal. Mrs. S. H. Hempstead's niece, Miss Ada Beall Coch- 
rane, became the wife of Rev. T. B. Lee, former Rector of 
Christ Church, and nov\' Rector of St. David's Church, Austin, 
Texas, whose biography appears in these annals. 

A. D. 1858. Bishop Freeman was the connecting link 
between Christ Church and the JN'orthern District of Cali- 
fornia, in 1858, by the Episcopal act of ordination, of one 
who is affectionatelv remembered bv the old citizens. 




RT. REV. JOHN HENRY DUCACHET WINGFIELD, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 119 



ET. KEY. JOH^ HEXRY DUCACHET WIXGEIELD, 
D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., 

MISSIONARY BISHOP OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

Consecrated December 2, 1874, in St. Paul Church, 
Petersburg, Va. Died July 27, 1898, at his home, St. Augus- 
tine College, Benicia, Cal. 

On Friday, June 3, 1808, the annalist addressed a letter 
to Bishop Wingfield, asking for some notes of his residence in 
Little Rock, and his connection with Christ Church, where he 
was ordained Deacon by Rt. Rev. G. W. Freeman, in 1858. 
In the issue, August 4, 1898, of the Southern Churchman of 
Richmond, Va., under the article "liorthern California," I 
read the announcement of his death with grieved surprise. 

On August 16 a letter was received from his widow, ]\Irs. 
Anne M. D. Wingfield, enclosing notices of his death, with his 
picture and the following postal card : 

St. Augustine College, 
Benicia, Cal., August 11, 1898. 

I send you by this mail a photograph and some papers, 
and as soon as I can find cuttings from old Little Rock papers, 
will copy and send them, together with a letter written to you 
by Bishop Wingfield in answer to yours. Pardon this long 
delay. 

ANNE M. D. W. 

On August 17, 1898, Mrs. Wingfield again wrote, enclos- 
ing his letter and a copy of the newspaper clipping from a 
Little Rock paper.* 



*The letter and clipping from newspaper are here appended. 



120 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

St. Augustine College^ 
Beiiicia, Cal., August 17, 1898. 

My Dear Mrs. Canlrell: 

Some days ago I sent you a photograph of my husband^ 
also newspapers containing notices of his death, which 
occurred July 27. The enclosed letter was written by him 
to you on June '27. I have not sent it to you because he asked 
me to copy whatever I could find in the form of a newspaper 
clipping, taken from an old Little Rock paper. His letter 
may be difficult to read, but I am very sure you will prize it, 
and more especially as his dear body is now laid to rest in 
Blandford Cemetei-y, at Petersburg, Va. I have a long letter 
from my sister, telling me of his burial. 

When he fell on the floor, stricken wdtli paralysis, on May 
23, 1896, I made desperate efforts to help him, thinking he 
had fainted. I soon found that both my hands were sprained 
and heli)less. Rheumatism settled in them, and 1 have not 
been able to use them for even writing, without suffering very 
much. Otherwise I should Avrite more at length and give the 
particulars of his last hour. His death was unexpected after 
all his long, patient, weary time of suffering. His mind was 
deranged for a year lacking two days, and was fully restored. 
You can see from his letter how his memory has clung to him. 
He has always said he believed his body would be restored 
suddenly, and for some weeks past had seemed so well and so 
hoi)eful that I really believed he would get well. But, with- 
out any ]iremonitary symtoms, his heart suddenly failed — he 
did not suffer, but died quietly, like as of one going off in 
sleep. 

A young clei-gyiuan is a member of my household, and I 
have gotten him to copy the new^spaper clipping. I found it 
pasted in a blank Imok, and it was the only one from a Little 
Rnck |»;i|)er — the title was not giveu. 

Let uie know, please, wlictliei- the ])hotogra])h and news- 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 121 

papers reached you. And now, I must close, my dear Mrs. 
Cantrell, with all good wishes for you. 
Faithfully yours, 
AX^^E M. DAXDPtlDGE WI^tgFIELD. 

( 'opied from a newspaper clipping from a blank book 
containing scraps, belonging to Bishop Wingfield. — Annte 
]\r. 1). Wingfield. 

Little Eock, January 18, 185S. 

]\ressrs. Editors— It l)ecomes my pleasing duty to inform 
you of an ordination in Arkansas. This event was of singu- 
lar interest^ from the fact that it Avas the first in the State, 
except one, and the first ordination of a Deacon belonging to 
this ecclesiastical jurisdiction. On the second Sunday after 
Epiphany, the Rt. Rev. Missionary Bishop of the Southwest 
admitted to the order of Deacons Mr. J. H. D. Wingfield, 
principal of the Ashley Institute. There were present the 
Rev. A. F. Freeman, Rector of the Parish; the Rev. Otis 
Hackett, Missionary at Ilelenaj and the Rev. W. C Stout, of 
the Diocese of Mississippi. The morning service was read 
by the Rector, assisted by Mr. Stout. The ordination sermon 
was preached by Mr. Hackett, from Acts xxviii. 22. It was 
an able argument in behalf of the Church, and a strong defense 
against numerous popular prejudices. A painful interest 
was given to the occasion by the feebleness of the Bishop, who 
was conducted from his room, in his robes, during the sermon, 
his health and strength not being sufficient to sustain him 
through the whole service. The venerable Bishoj), after thir- 
teen years of hard service in this State, leaving his sick room 
to ordain the first Deacon, is a picture to look on. Should he 
not have the sympathy and prayers of his brethren ? No one 
out of this field of labor knows what hardness the Bishop has 
had to endure. And now that he is broken in health and 
op})ressed by his heavy charge, shall he not have help ? He 
has, at no time, had laborers to fill the places that were crying 
to him for the services of the Church. Fields have been ripe 
to the harvest, but there was no one to reap. 



122 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

In the afternoon the Rev. ]\Ir. Wingfield, the newmade 
Deacon, put on his harness, and after service by Mr. Hackett, 
assisted by Mr. Stout, preached from Acts xvi. 34, a discourse 
giving much promise of future usefulness. Mr. Wingfield is 
the son of the Eev. John Wingiield, Rector of Trinity Church, 
Portsmouth, Ya. He was admitted a candidate in Virginia, 
and after pursuing his studies some time, was transferred to 
this jurisdiction. We trust that a field of great usefulness is 
before him, and that he is the pioneer of the many that shall 
follow in his steps. 

At night, after service by Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Stout 
preached from Luke xvi. 23, 24, on the certainty of future 
|)unishments ; and warning men against the seductions of 
"science, falsel}^ so-called." The day was altogether a joyful 
one to those who pray for the prosperity of our Zion in these 
parts. 

From some unaccountable reason, Arkansas has been ap- 
parently avoided by clergy seeking locations in the Southwest. 
The State is healthy. (See the census report on this matter.) 
Society is as good as it can be without the Church. The peo- 
])le are kind and cordial, and no one can be here long without 
forming strong attachments. There are many places where 
the services of a minister are greatly desired, and a competent 
support can be had. Brethren, ''come over and help us !" 

VIATOR. 

St. Augustine College, 
Benicia, Cal., Monday, June 27, 1898. 

To Mrs. W. A. Cantrell, care Dr. ^Y. A. Cantrell. Little Rock, 
Ark. : 

^ly Dear Old Friend — Your much esteemed letter is at 
hand aiul I take advantage of the ojjportunity to write a brief 
re])ly. I am delighted to receive it and to know that I still 
live in the memory of my old Little Rock friends, who are 
kind enough to remember mc when I have been separated 
from them for fortv years. Yours is tlie first letter T have 
i-ccoivod from tliat city since 1 left there, with the exception 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 123 

of one from my old friend, Langstroutli, with whom I lived, 
yon may recollect, over the hank, and one from the Rev. Mr. 
Carnahan, when he was Rector of Christ Church. Strange 
to say, I have never met with any people from your city except 
General Albert Pike and Bishop Pierce, both of whom were 
so full of their -own business that I could never learn anything 
of my old friends and acquaintances. My ! what a flood of 
recollections is let loose by your valuable letter. It seems 
like a dream that T ever went to Little Rock and the two years 
I spent there were two of the happiest of my life. But to 
business ! You ask me foi a history of myself. I will try 
not to weary you. 

A. D. 1856-1897. In 1858 I was a student of Divinity 
in the Theological School, near Alexandria, Va., and in the 
summer vacation went on a trip to i^iagara Falls. From 
some imprudence I took a violent cold which left me with a 
wretched cough and this was followed by slight hemorrhages. 
Just at this juncture Colonel Wm. Ashley was looking for 
some one to take charge of liis school for his son Chester, called 
the Ashley Institute. His brother Henry, who was a class- 
mate of mine at St. Timothy's College, near Baltimore, where 
we had graduated together, recommended me to the place of 
principal. I accepted and took charge in October, 1856, and 
continued to pursue my theological studies under the Rev. 
Andrew Freeman. On the 16th of January, later, 1858, the 
Rev. Otis Hackett, of Helena, Ark., and the Rev. Wm. C. 
Stout, of the Diocese of Mississippi, arrived at Little Rock 
and I was examined for Deacon's orders, and the next day 
Bishop Freeman came across the street from his residence to 
<^)rdain me. In the afternoon I preached my first sermon and 
continued to assist the Rector until Jime, 1858, when I re- 
turned to Virginia, reaching Portsmouth, Va., July 4, and 
going at once into the pulpit to assist my father, the Rector 
of Trinity Church in that city. 

The following summer, 1859, I passed my examinations 
for Priest's orders and was married to Miss Mary Imogene 
Chandler, the youngest daughter of Surgeon John Chandler, 



124 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

United States navy. Her sister is now the wife of Rev. Dr. 
Beard, of Birmingham, Ala. I remained Associate Rector in 
Portsmouth, Va., until 1863, when I fell into the hands of 
"I-]oast Butler," who condemned me to three months' imprison- 
ment in the penitentiary and to wear ball and chain and sweep 
the streets of Norfolk, Va, As soon as I was released from 
l)rison I went with my wife and babe to a country parish, 
near Bel Air, Harford County, Md. On September 17, 
1864, the mother died of galloping consumption, leaving me 
with a lovely boy of four months. If he were alive to-day he 
^vould be 35 years old, but alas! he was spared to me only to 
l)(' murdered on the streets of Benicia, July 8, 1889 ! 

Three of my brothers were in the army of Confederate 
States, one a colonel on General Blanchard's staif, the second 
on General R. E. Lee's staff as inspector general of all his 
hospitals, and the third, my youngest brother, was a lieuten- 
ant in one of the Norfolk companies. I was enlisted in a 
company but drilled only once, while I served as chaplain on 
two occasions to the soldiers in camp. All the rest of the 
time I was not confined in prison, I held continuous services 
in Portsmouth, Va., and in Harford County, ]\Id. 

In January, 1866, I returned to assist my father as 
Associate Rector of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va., and 
remained with him two years, when, in 1868, I accepted a call 
to Petersburg, Va. In 1866 I married Miss Lee, of Bel Air, 
l\Id. We were very happy in Petersburg and St. Paul's con- 
gregation of that city, but alas ! death entered my home and 
robbed me of my wife, in August, 1872. I received several 
calls while there. One in New York City, one in New Orleans, 
one in Galveston, and one in Savannah, but finally a call from 
Trinity Church, San Prancisco, came and it seemed that I 
must go. So I married a widow — Mrs. Anne Garland, of 
Mecklenburg County, Va., and went, on June 18, 1874, to 
take charge of my new field ou the Pacific Coast. In the 
fall of that year I was elected Bishop of Northern California, 
and in April, 1875, began my work here. 

r ])resume you have been wondering ivhy I should write 
to yon witli a poncil. Well, niv dear old friend, I will tell 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 125 

you. All my life I Lave enjoyed most excellent health ; in 
fact, I fancied that nothing could break me down. My nerves 
seemed to be made of steel, and my muscles of adament ; so I 
gave myself up to hard and continuous work, until at last, on 
the 23d of May, 1896, I fell on the floor, stricken with 
paralysis." My whole left side was suddenly rendered utterly 
helpless. I was in a condition of entire unconsciousness. 
The doctor said I was paralyzed from overwork. I had on 
that day performed my fifteen thousandth service ; and do 
you wonder that I was paralyzed I I remained unconscious 
until May 21, 1897, on the morning of which day I woke from 
my sleep — once more myself. Thus, nearly a whole year I 
knew nothing and recognized nobody. Still my imagination 
was active, for I thought I was traveling all over the world 
and reviewing my life. My wife says I talked of all my old 
f]-iends who had lived in the various places where I had spent 
my early life. She says I talked of yoii and all my other 
Little Rock friends. It all seemed as real as though T had 
actually talked with them in the flesh. 

On the 7th of June, 1897, I was brought down stairs and 
have ever since occupied my parlor for a chamber. I sup]iose 
I must be getting better, but my progress has been slow- 
scarcely perceptible. My appetite is very good, and I have 
discharged my doctor, retaining only the continuous services 
of a trained nurse. ^\y wife watched me with constant care, 
and I expect to ]udl through in the course of time. It requires 
of me much patience, l)ut I am hopeful and cheerful. Bishop 
Graves, of the Platte, has been sent to relieve me and jierform 
all Episcopal offices, so that my jurisdiction has not suffered 
very much. If the good Lord should be pleased to restore 
me soon to health and permit me to go to Washington City 
next October to attend the meeting of General Convention, 
I'll promise to go by way of Little Rock and stop off a day 
to see my old friends. At present it looks dubious, however, 
and I can scarcely hope to be able to accomplish my fond 
desire, but // I am well enough to travel I'll surely make the 



♦Caused bv cerebral hemorrliage. 



126 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

effort to go. My only child, my daughter, j\Irs. Jas. Hamil- 
ton Scott, who lives in Hichmond, has exacted of me a promise 
to that effect. 

I am very sorry to learn that Christ Church was burned 
in 1873. If you have a j)liotograph of the old Church and 
its successor, may 1 take the liberty of asking you to send me 
a copy i My wife promises to send you copies of some clip- 
pings of newspapers which I preserved. I think they will 
interest you in making youi book. Bishop Pierce has a book 
called ''the Episcopate of America." Ask him to let you 
see it. Bishop Perry, of loAva, got it up a few years ago, and 
I am sure you will be pleased with it. Ask him if he has 
another book by Rev. Mr. Patterson called "The American 
Episcopate," also. My wife says I must stop, but I cannot 
close without asking after all the people of Little Rock, in 
w]iom you may think I am interested. Is General Churchill 
alive and his wife ? If so please tell him, I still prize a fine 
Piayer Book, which he gave me on my ordination day. I 
M'ould like to inquire after Dr. Hooper. I saw his name as 
a member of the Medical Society which met in San Francisco 
a few years ago, and intended to hunt him up, but was pre- 
vented doing so. I wonder sometimes if my old friends are 
still living — the Ashleys, the Waits, the Reardons, and many 
others T cannot recall now. Please write to me, and believe 
me, with love to everybody that remembers me. 
^"onr affectionate friend, 

J. H. D. WI^TGFIELD. 

GONE TO HIS REWARD. 

BIJ^lIOP J. n. 1). WTNGFIELD IS NO MORE THE HEAD OF TITE 

EPISCOI'AL CIirKCTI O I'^ THE NORTIIEKX DISTRICT 
OE CALlKOItNIA SUCCUMBS TO PARALYSIS. 

This coiimnmity was startled on hearing the sad news of 
the death of the Pa. Rev. J. H. I). Wingfield, which occurred 
Wednesday aftci-iiocn at 4:4.5 oV-lock. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 127 

Notwitlistandinii,' the fact that he had been sick for the 
past two years, caused by a stroke of paralysis, it was generally 
supposed that he was in a fair way to recovery. 

The death of Bishop Wingfield is a great loss to the 
Church, of which he has been a prominent member since 1853. 
He had filled the position up to the time of his death — Mis- 
sionary Bishop of the Northern District of California — hav- 
ing been elected to this position in 1874. A short resume of 
his life will be of interest to his many friends on this Coast : 

Bishop Wingfield was a native of Portsmouth, Va., 
where he was born September 24, 1833, and educated at first 
privately and then at St. Timothy's, Maryland, at which in- 
stitution he was for two ve^^i'S an instructor. lie was gradu- 
ated at William and Mary C^ollege in 1853. lie pursued the 
vocation of a teacher until 1855, when he spent a year at the 
Theological Seminary of Virginia, and then resumed his pro- 
fessional work as the head of the Ashley Institute, in Little 
Rock, Ark. He was ordained Deacon in Christ Church, 
Little Rock, January 17, 1858, by Bishop Freeman, and ad- 
vanced to the Priesthood by Bishop Johns, in the Chapel of 
the Virginia Seminary, July 1, 1859. 

After serving as a curate to the Rector of CUirist Church, 
Little Rock, he assisted his venerable father, the Rev. John 
II. Wingfield, in Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va., and sub- 
sequently served in Maryland at Christ Church, Rock Spring, 
returning to Trinity, Portsmouth, 1866. Lie served at St, 
Paul's, Petersburg, Va., 1868, where, in 1871, he founded 
St. .Paul's School for Girls; and in 1874 became Rector of 
Trinity Church, San Francisco, Cal. The College of William 
and Mary conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity 
in 1869, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1874. 

The Missionary District of jSTorthern California having 
been created at the General Convention of 1874, Dr. W^ing- 
field was chosen as the first Bishop, and was consecrated in 
St. Paul's, Petersburg, Va., December 2, of the same year, 
by Bishops Johns, Atkinson, Lay, Pinkeney, and Lyman. 

On removing to his Missionary See he became president 
of the Missionary College of St. Augustine, at Benicia. 



128 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Later lie assumed the lieadsliip of St. Mary's of the Pacific, 
in Benicia, and also became Rector of St. Paul's Church, 
Benicia. During a laborious and devoted administration. 
Bishop Wingfield has declined four opportunities for transla- 
tion — in 1S79, the Bishopric of Louisiana; in 1882, the As- 
sistant Bishopric of Mississippi; and in 1886 and ]8S7, the 
See of Easton. 

His administration, under many untoward circumstances 
impeding his work, and with a tragic episode in which all 
hearts were won to him in sympathy and marked respect, has 
l>een earnest, acceptable and successful. His eloquence, zeal, 
devotion and energy commended the Bishop and his work to 
all men. 

Ilis })ul)lis]icd works are '^The Sacrament of Wa)-riurs ;" 
''Answers to the Charge of Uncharitahleness;" "The C'liiireJi- 
man's Gratitude;" Sermons, Pastorals, etc. 

Bishop Wingfield, as a mend)er of this community, was 
respected and loved by all who knew him. The mombci's of 
his ccmgregation of St. Paul's Church worshipped liim. His 
charity was unbounded and his hand was always open to the 
needy. All who were educated under him at St. Augustine's 
College will hear with regret of his demise. He always had 
a kind and hearty greeting for all, and to those who had gained 
his friendsliip he was a frind indeed, and his loss will be felt 
by many who had always looked to him for advice and counsel. 

He leaves a widow, Anne M. H., and one daughter, Mrs. 
]\rary Scott, who now resides in Richmond, Va. 

THE FUNERAL. 

The funeral services were held on Friday at G :30 p. m. 
at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The remains were taken 
from his late residence to the Church, where the Rt. Rev. 
Wm. Ford ^Tjcliols. H. D., Bishop of California, in the full 
robe of his high office, and assisted by the Rev. J. T. Shirtleff, 
of Auburn; Rev. John Partridge, of Petaluma; Rev. James 
Cope, of Santa Rosa ; Rev. Chas. L. Miel, of Sacramento ; Rev. 
Wm. A. George, of Chico; Rev. A. A. McAllister, Chaplain 
r. S. A\, Valleio: Rov. Caleb Ben-Ham, of Napa, and Rev. 



THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 129 

J. II. Waterman, of Beiiicia, met the funeral cortege at the 
outer door of the Church and escorted it to the Chancel, 
Bishop Nichols chanting a prayer. It was a most solemn 
and impressive scene, and one never to be forgotten by those 
who attended. When the words, "I am the resurrection and 
the life, saith the Lord" were spoken by Bishop Nichols there 
was hardly a dry eye in the congregation. The singing by 
the choir, which was especially chosen for the occasion, was 
beautiful. At the end of the burial service the remains were 
taken to the evening train for transmission to Petersburg, W. 
Va., where the remains will be interred in the family plot. 

The Church was handsomely draped in the Royal Purple, 
interwoven with white carnations and roses, and branches of 
the triumphal palm helped to make it a beautiful and impres- 
sive scene. The following gentlemen acted as pall bearers : 
Colonel W. W. Lyman, of St. Helena ; W. W. Armstrong, of 
San Francisco; l)r. W. A. Moore, of Benicia; Judge J. M. 
Gregory, of Suisun ; F. W. Gabriel, of Suisun ; F. P. Wein- 
mann, of Benicia. The honorary pall bearers were as follows : 
Captain Geo. White, of Oakland ; W. R. Porter, of Watson- 
ville; Elliot McAllister, of Oakland; Jas. A. Nowdand, of 
San Francisco ; Geo. H. Andruss, of Oakland ; Major Wm. B. 
Hooper, of San Francisco ; Dr. T. M. Todd, of Auburn ; John 
A. Walker, of Benicia; Dr. S. A. Deuel, of Benicia; Herbert 
J. Show^, of Sutter Creek; Dr. R. P. Smith, of Santa Rosa;. 
P. Torelli, of Benicia. 

The world hath lost a man. His path he strewed 

AVith gentle kindnesses and words of grace. 

From all degrees of men his open face 

Won high regard or earnest gratitude. 

W^ith sturdy honesty and truth endued, 

His soul was w^ritten on his countenance. 

And all might read him at a casual glance, 

As on a world-wide pedestal he stood. 

By unclean pelf his hand and lieart unstained. 

Strong for ihe right, and turning not aside 

Whene'er the public weal was in debate, 



130 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

lie justitied the honor he had gained. 
If specks in marble envious eyes espied, 
His faith in God was his sure armor-plate. 



The will of the late Bishop Wingtield was filed for pro- 
bate in the Superior Court of Solano County August 15. The 
estate consists of money in the savings bank, investments and 
promissory notes, amounting to $57,086, and real estate valued 
at $22,420; total $79,500. The will was dated January 16, 
1893, and the entire estate was bequeathed to the widow, Mrs. 
Anne M. Wingfield, for her sole use during the term of her 
natural life, after the expiration of which it passes to the 
daughter, Mary Wingfield. — The Pacific Churchman, San 
Francisco, Cab, volume xxxiv. number 111, September 1, 
1898. 



REV. WILLIAM C. STOUT. 

A. D. 1824-1858. Ber. ^yilllnm C. Stout, who assisted 
at the ordination of Mr. J. H. D. Wingfield, principal of the 
Ashley Institute, was the son of John G. and Mary Kirby 
Stout. He was born near Greenville, Tenn., February 18, 
1824; ordained Deacon in Alexandria, Ya., by Rt. Rev. 
Leonidas Polk, of Louisiana, in 1847 ; ordained Priest 
in Faycttevillc, Ark., by Rt. Rev. Dr. G. W. Freeman, in 
J 848. In 1851 Mr. Stout was married to Miss Mary Jor- 
dan, of Marshall County, Miss. In 1852-53 he officiated at 
Calvary Church, Memphis, Tenn., and in 1858, moved to 
Little Reck, Ark. 

A. D. 1860-1886. During the interval between his mar- 
riage and that date, Mr. Stout was almost always employed in 
the care of his wif(>'s possessions, consisting of slaves and 
li1nntnti(tns, of which she was the ori)lian heiress. The care 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 131 

of these souls he felt to be imperative — a trust from the 
Creator, as well as a trust from his wife. She was left 
entirely alone on the death of her father and was very de- 
pendent on her husband. But whenever an opportunity for 
mission work offered that he could combine with his first, im- 
mediate charge, he embraced it gladly and wrought faithfully 
in the Master's vineyard, without compensation other than 
that bestowed in the blessing on his labors by the just house- 
holder. In the summer of 18G0 Rev. Mr. Stout took charge 
of Christ Church, as Acting Rector, during the absence of 
Bishop Lay and Dr. Wheat, the Rector in charge. He had 
many friends in the parish. The bulk of his wealth dis- 
solved during the Civil War, but in adversity as in prosperity 
he did not forfeit his allegiance to Him he vowed to serve. 
He died at Morrilton, Ark., on the 11th of December, 1S86, 
deeply mourned by his bereaved family and at peace with 
God. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stout were: 

1. WiUicDu Jordan Stout. Who married Miss Fannie 
Farrish, of Jackson, Miss., and died in 1883. 

2. James Jordan Stout. Unmarried; died in 1885. 

3. Arthur Path Stout. Unmarried; died in 1883. 

4. Thomas Percy Stout. ^Married Miss Ida Wendel, 
of Brownsville, Tenn. 

5. Wlary Irene Stout. Married Mr. G. P. Lane, of 
Mississippi. They have a son, De Lisle, and a daughter. 



132 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



REV. JOIIX T110.MAS WHEAT, D. D. 

A. D. 1801-1867. Ber. John Thomas Wheat, D. D., 
who succeeded Rev. xVndrew F. Freeman as the second Rector 
of Christ Chnrchj was born l^ovember 15, 1801, in Washing- 
ton City, Avhere he lived until he became of age. He then re- 
moved to Alexandria, Va., where he studied for the ministry 
under Rev. Dr. Wilmer, of that city. While studying he also, 
at the age of 21, instructed thirty youths in the higher 
branches of learning. Under his good instruction and dis- 
cipline this school increased to eighty or ninety pupils, requir- 
ing two assistants. Mr. Wheat was then, in 1825, admitted to 
the Diaconate of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Moore, of 
Virginia, in Christ Churchy Alexandria, and in 182(3 he was 
ordained Presbyter by Bishop Kemp, of Maryland, in St. 
Paul's Church, Baltimore. The next year he took charge 
of a Church in Wheeling, Va. From 1835 to 1838 he was 
Rector of St. PauFs Church, Xew Orleans, La. In 1839-49 
he was Rector of Christ (Jhurch in Xashville, Tenn., leaving 
there to accept the chair of professor of logic in the University 
of Xorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he remained until 
1859. He then became Rector of Christ Church, Little Rock, 
Ark. During the war, in 1863, while cut off by the fall of 
Vicksburg, from his parish in Little Rock, he was chaplain m 
the Confederate army. From July, 1867, until he retired 
from active service in the ministry he was Rector of the Monu- 
mental Church of St. Lazarus, at Memphis, Tenn., which he 
resigned after nearly half a century of clerical labor. The 
farewell services, on his taking leave of his congregation, were 
very impressive. Previous to the opening of the regular ser- 
vices. Dr. Carmicliel, of a iieioh])orin<>' Church, nuide an 



REV. JOHN THOMAS WHEAT, D. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 133 

address, in which he paid a just tribute to Dr. Wheat's high 
standing and abilities, showing the effect of his eloquence 
upon his hearers. The MempJiis Appeal in quoting from 
the address, says : 

"Sixteen years ago, when the speaker was a young lawyer 
in Fredericksburg, Va., Dr. Wheat delivered an address to 
the young men of that town. The fervid eloquence, the lofty 
piety of the minister, and the great and glorious truths he re- 
vealed that day were not without their effect upon everyone 
there, and at once decided him to resolve to study for the min- 
istry. This resolve was carried into effect, and it was owing 
to the earnest efforts of Dr. Wheat that day that he, the 
speaker, became a minister. His gratitude, his ai:>precia- 
tion for the good man who had induced him to espouse the 
cause of the Lord Avcre deep and lasting." 

A. D. 1838-1866. Besides his local clerical labors. Dr. 
Wheat has filled the honorable position of Delegate to the 
General Convention of the Episcopal Church, during the 
triennial meetings of 1838, 1841, 1844, 1847, 18.68, and 1871. 
In 1846 Dr. Wlieat received the degree of D. D. from the 
University of Xasliville, Tenn. In 1866 he published a 
"Preparation for the Holy Communion." On March 10, 
1825, in the city of Alexandria, Ya., Dr. Wheat married 
Selina Blair Patten Roberdeau. In 1875 he celebrated his 
golden wedding. For that occasion he wrote and published 
a poem, dedicated to his wife, entitled '''Reminiscences of My 
Prc-Nuptial Life," containing the mention of many interest- 
ing incidents. Their children were: 

A. D. 1826-1862. l. Chatham Eohercleau. Born in 
Alexandria, Va., April 9, 1826. He fought under General 
Winfield Scott in the IMexican War. After peace was de- 
clared, fought under j\fexican generals for the State against 
the Church, going twice into the City of Mexico with a con- 



134 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

quering army; first with General Scott, and afterwards w'ith 
General Alvarez, He went to the rescue of General Walker 
in Central America ; tried to liberate the Cubans under Lopez ; 
went to offer his sword to Garibaldi in Italy, and was there 
styled '"the Murat of America/' because of his fearlessness on 
the battlefield; returned to America at the beginning of the 
Civil War and commanded the celebrated ''Louisiana Tiger 
Rifles." He fell at the head of his command while carrying 
the colors that had five times been shot down in almost as 
many minutes, at the battle of Gaines's Mill, June 27, 1862. 

A. D. 1827-1872. 2. Sdina Patten. Born June 12, 
1827. Married Dr. John Seay, of jSTashville, Tenn. Died 
November S, 1872. 

A. D. 1830-1862. -3. John Thomas. Born Decem- 
ber S, 1830. Was killed in the Civil War at the battle of 
Shiloh, Tenn., April 6, 1862. 

A. D. 1833-1853. 4. Josephine May. Born Febru- 
ary 22, 1833. Married Hon. Frances E. Shober, secretary 
of United States Senate, July 11, 1853. 

5. Reginald Heher. Born January 5, 1837. Died 
June 7, 1839. 

A. D. 1841. 6. Leonidas Polh. Born May 5, 1841. 

A. D. 1888-1896. Dr. Wheat lived to be 87 years old, 
spending the last few years of his life among his children. He 
tntercd into the Life Eternal February 2, 1888, from the 
h(»ine of his iimch hn-ed granddaughter, Mrs. May Shober 
Boyden, at Salisbury, N. C, ministered to in his last illness 
by his faithful and devoted wife, his daughter, Josephine 
!May, his granddaughter, May, and her husband Archibald 
Boyden. He was buried from St. Luke's Church, Salis- 
bury, X. C, Sundav morning, Februarv 5, and interred in 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 135 

the old English graveyard near the Church. Dr. Wlieat's 
old parishioners of St. Lazarus, Memphis, sent, as a memorial 
to their beloved pastor, a communion service of gold, enclosed 
in a brass bound oak casket, to St. Luke's Church, Salisbury. 
St. Mark's Church, Berkley, Cal., which he established while 
sojourning there in 1876, has placed on the altar a handsome 
brass cross and vases as a memorial to the founder of the 
parish. All Saints' Church, Concord, N. C, erected a hand- 
some chancel window to Dr. Wheat, who organized that parish 
and was the first Rector. This was his last work on earth. 
liis wife survived him nearly ten years. She fell asleep 
on the eve of Christmas, 1896, in the ninety-second year of 
her life, and was buried from St. Luke's Church, Salisbury, 
N. C, and laid to rest by the side of her beloved husband, 
there to await the resurrection morn. 

The Richmond Times (Virginia), of date December 2, 
1896, published the appended special dispatch: 

MRS. SELINA ROBERDEAU WHEAT. 

SALISBURY, K C, December 20,.— {Special) — 
Mrs. Selina Roberdeau Wheat died night before last and was 
buried here to-day by the side of her husband, from St. Luke's 
Episcopal Church. She was the daughter of General Rober- 
deau, of Revolutionary War fame, and was born in Alexan- 
dria, Va., in 1805, and married Rev. John Thomas Wheat in 
1825. She was the mother of Ma.|or Roberdeau Wheat, of 
the Louisiana Tigers; Captain John Thomas Wheat, Mrs. 
Selina Seay, of Nashville; Professor Leo Wheat, and Mrs. 
Colonel Shober, of this city, at whose home Mrs. Wheat died. 

She was a noble and illustrious woman and lived an 
honored and useful life of over ninety-one years. It is said 
her husband was the first child born in the city of Washing- 
ton, D. C, after its settlement, the family on Iwth sides lioing 
of illustrious blood. 



136 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

As an unconscious witness to the unselfish heart and 
Christian graces of this remarkable woman, the annalist feels 
it a jjrivilege to transcribe one of Mrs. Wheat's letters taken 
from a treasured collection, premising that Mrs. Wheat had 
known her correspondent in childhood in Nashville, Tenn. 
The letter was addressed to her at *'Grape Leaf" plantation, 
where she was visiting her mother and sister, and brother, 
Colonel John M. Harrell: 

Little Kock, Ark., February 27, 1860. 
Mrs. Dr. CanireU : 

My Dear Young Friend — You are doubtless wondering 
why I have not replied to your very kind letter, which came 
while I was nursing a very sore eye ; but I was thinking you 
would be the gainer, as the doctor fully intended replying for 
me. He has been taking care of my correspondence, prin- 
cipally to our children, he confesses "to the utter neglect of 
all others." So I come to assure you that we, neither of us, 
have forgotten you or the doctor ; indeed, we begin to look for 
you soon, for we have missed you terribly. Say to the doctor, 
I have been a j^atient of Dr. Peyton, and have taken my first 
dose of quinine, which I had dreaded so much. I seldom 
go near your shutup house without wishing you were there. 
T ever miss your sweet children, with their answering notes 
<»f "little drops of water." Will you not come back in time 
for the Easter festival ? It is then the rewards are to be 
given. I do hope Lilly and May will be in the ranks. They 
do deserve their prizes. I will send them the Easter hymn 
and you will teach it to them. Bishop Lay sent it to the 
Sunday School. He was so delighted with our little Chris- 
tians. I was truly sorry I did not see your mother at her 
late visit. Wo exchanged calls without seeing each other. I 
have met your brother at several of the bridal parties. T hope 
yon saw tlie account of the dual wedding which took place in 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 137 

our Churcli.* ^N^ever was there so beautiful a tableau iu 
our Church, and seldom could you find so quiet and well- 
behaved an audience. You might have heard a pin fall. 
Yet the crowd filled the aisles to the very "horns of the altar," 
No levity, no whispering, and not a movement was made to 
leave till the wedded pairs were out. The night was lovely, 
and the entrance street filled, as was the Church, to its utmost 
capacity. Judge Rector is to take a pew in our Church, 
which he says, his wife shall ahvays attend "if she chooses." 
By the way, there is such a demand for pews that I have 
given up mine to Mrs. Bertrand, who needed two and could 
not get one near to the one she still retains. The doctor is 
beautifying the Churchyard, which, you know, needed atten- 
tion. You wall find us with imj^erial ways ! jLeo has not 
yet come ; he was taken possession of by my friends in Rich- 
mond, who write "if you succeed in keeping Leo, you will 
have to come for him." My daughter Selina:|: has been in 
great trouble. Her loveliest child, 10 years old, has been laid in 
the tomb, or rather "has gone to live in heaven," which is 
her more devout expression. I was too unwell to go to her, 
and she is hoping to see me in the spring. We talk of visit- 
ing New Orleans after Easter, when Mr. Stout will l)e at 
home to take the doctor's place, who will need some rest about 
that time. 

Please excuse my poor return for your most kind letter 
and be assured I have not willingly neglected you. The 
doctor has a great antipathy, as most gentlemen have, to 
letters, except on business, wdiicli have accumulated on him 
since the Bishop's visit ; indeed, it seems that much of the duty 
of the Episcopate, that is not wholly official, has to devolve 
on the oldest Presbyter. The Bishop is to live at Eort 



*Jndg'e Henry M. Rect'^r, widower, afterwards Governor of Arkansas, was mar- 
ried to Miss Ernestine Linde, and Major Brown to Mrs. Sallie Trapnall, widow, nee 
Faulkner, by the same marriage service. 

tLeonidas Polk Wheat, youngest child' of Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Wheat, and organist 
of Christ Church. 

tMrs. John Seay. 



138 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Smith. The secretary of war has given him permission to 
occupy a part of the public building. He is to remove his 
family in May. 

With love to Dr. Cantrell and a kiss to the children, I am 

Yours truly, 

SELINA WHEAT. 

A. D. 1859-1886. Dr. Wheat's first object, when' he 
took charge of Christ Church as Rector, was ''to feed the 
lambs.'' The Sunday School was the field where he sowed 
good seed, looking for the harvest in the distant future. The 
children were gathered together, and before his encouraging 
eye and winning courtliness of manner, shyness vanished and 
enthusiasm spread through the ranks. A sketch of the first 
Easter festival held under his direction in 1860, referred to 
in the letter quoted in the Arlcansas Gazette of Wednesday, 
April 7, 1886, twenty-six years afterwards, was printed as a 
reminiscence, from which the subjoined extract is taken : 

"^The Church, which was much enlarged and improved 
under the direction of the former Rector, Rev. A. F. Free- 
man, has been further embellished by the good taste of the 
present Rector, Dr. J. T. Wheat. The Churchyard, spacious, 
grassy and shaded by fine trees, has been enclosed with a 
fence of appropriate design, paved from the gate to the two 
entrances and planted with evergreens on each side of the 
Church. Directly in front of the tower (which had been 
added by Rev. A. F. Freeman), and overlooking it, is a 
stately oak, whose branches extend in kindly guardianship, 
forming a group more striking and pleasing than the finest 
sculpture; and the whole, colored Avith a springday sun, the 
green foliage of the trees and the brighter green of the turf, 
and animated with groups of worshippers entering the holy 
temple, presented a scene worthy of poet's pen and painter's 
brush. A flight of steps in the tower led to the gallery of 
the Church, Avlierc the pipe organ and choir were stationed. 
^\r. Leo P. Wheat, son of the Rector, was the organist. His 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 139 

ie])utation as a skilled musician is a public one. On this 
Easter Sunday his voluntary was a transport of harmony, 
which merged into the anthem "The Lord is Risen To-Day^" 
sung triumphantly by his well trained choir,* as the prelude 
to the morning service. This was conducted by Rev. Dr. 
Wheat, assisted by Rev. Wm. C. Stout. The sermon, on the 
text from Colossians iii. 1-3, was a continuation of a series 
delivered during Lent, and was one of the ablest efforts of 
the gifted Rector. It has not been quite a year since the con- 
gregation welcomed him, and, at the altar, at the bedside of 
the sick and dying, in his constant round of parochial visits 
among the rich and poor, his daily life and conversation have 
been so effective, that, like sheep straying from the fold, the 
members have assembled at his call, and through green past- 
tures and by still waters have been refreshed at his hands, as 
the Master enjoined. The evening service, like that of the 
morning, was largely attended, and the series of sermons was 
concluded with one on the text, I John iii. 2, 3. 

''On Easter ]\Ionday a parish festival was held at the 
Church. After morning prayer was said, the Rector made 
an address on the spiritual condition of the parish and the 
best means of promoting its prosperity. The secretary read 
his report of the finances. An interesting memoir of the parish 
was then read and commented upon^ after which the new 
Vestry was chosen. The members of the Vestry used the 
occasion for the presentation of a testimonial from the con- 
gregation to the Rev. W. C. Stout in appreciation of his ser- 
vices in the pai-ish as acting Rector. On Monday evening 
was celebrated the festival of the Sunday School. This sup- 
plied the crowning evidence of the Rector's zeal and success. 
Under his administration, supported by the superintendent, 
^[r. jMatthews, a gentleman of rare culture and Christian ex- 
cellence, the original little band of fifteen or twenty scholars 
has increased to ninety, and thirteen teachers now perform 
the duty which formerly fell to two or three, oftener to one — 
Mrs. Luke E. Barber. The celebration in the evening Avill 



*It is a subject for re^et that the names of those who formed this splendid choir 
cannot be procured. 



140 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

long be remembered bj our citizens. It was a brilliant and 
lovely scene — without btemish, complete and graceful in every 
detail. The scholars, with their teachers, occupied the front 
pews, the girls on the right, the boys on the left. The bap- 
tismal font (the gift of Mrs. Frederick W. Trapnall) was 
tilled and wreathed with flowers. The Chancel platform was 
unoccupied except at the extreme right, where a small table 
supported a collection of premium books handsomely bound. 
JS^ear the table sat Mr. Matthews, the superintendent of the 
Sunday School, and C^olonel Thompson, president of St. 
John's College, the teacher of the young men's Bible class. 
The altar was lighted brilliantly and embellished with vases 
of flowers. Dr. Wheat, in vestments, was seated on the 
north side of the altar, the Rev. Mr. Stout on the south side. 
Near the Chancel at the head of the south aisle was placed a 
parlor organ. Mr. Leo Wheat presided, and to the magic 
inspiration of his strains must be attributed the especial 
charm of the exercises. These were opened with the usual 
offices of devotion of the Sunday School, conducted by the 
Rector. A hynm, ''Glory to the Father Give," was sung by 
the school. Mr. Matthews then delivered an able address to 
the })arents. Tlie hymn, "Savior, Who Thy Flock Art Feed- 
ing," led by the marvellously sweet voice of IMrs. Thompson, 
followed this. The rules were then given in order, first by a 
little girl of 5 years, who stood on the Chancel floor, and re- 
cited them without any prompting, and then by the classes 
who recited in concert after her. These were : 

1. Regular and punctual attendance. 

2. Cleanliness of person and apparel. 

3. Careful preparation of lessons. 

4. Quiet and order in and about the Church. 

5. Kindness and courtesy to each other. 

6. Cordial respect to teachers. 

<. Proni])t and cliecrful obedience. 

8. Strict trutlifulness in all things, 

n. A jtlace for cverytliing, and everything in its place. 

10. A time for all things, and everything at the proper 
time. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 141 

11. Business for everybody, and everybody to mind his 
own business. 

After this the Rector catechised the children. The 
hymn, "Youth, When Devoted to the Lord," was then sung, 
after which the chisses were called in succession for their 
Easter offerings. These w^ere voluntary, had been collected 
in the previous half year and had been kept separate by the 
teachers to be devoted at Easter to missions in the Diocese 
of Arkansas. 

The classes responded to their names, descriptive of the 
Christian life, wdiich were : 

1. Angels' Charge (little tots). 

2. Lambs of the Good Shepherd. 

3. Buds of Promise. 

4. Crown Jewels. 

5. Early Seekers. 

6. Lleirs of the Kingdom. 

7. Children in the Temple. 

8. Little Missionaries. 

9. Christian Brotherhood. 

10. Young Pilgrims. 

11. Soldiers of Christ. 

12. Heavenly Racers. 

Each class, as it was called, advanced in succession, step- 
ping to the music, the tallest going first, bearing a banner of 
white silk with a cross of gold painted on it. As each class 
approached the Chancel rail, one of the number presented the 
offering in a basket of flowers or in the heart of a bouquet, 
which was received by the Rector, who announced the amount 
and then placed it on the altar. The circle then turned 
towai'd the audience, one member recited a few^ selected verses 
of Scripture appropriate to the class title, another a hymn 
and then all returned to their seats. When all the classes had 
performed a similar exercise, the hymn, "Little Drops of 
Water," was sung with great unction. Colonel Thompson 
then made an address to the children, in which he introduced 
an original, instructive, and most beautiful alleoorv. Then 



142 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

was Sling tlic most aniiiiating of all the hymns, "Awake My 
Soul, Stretch Every Xerve." 

The premiums were next awarded, the teachers having 
given previously the names of those pupils who had received 
the greatest number of merit cards. An address to the teach- 
ers was then made by Kev. W. C. Stout. His commendations 
must have gratified both teachers and scholars, and it is hoped 
that hi? inspiring appeal may be long remembered to incite 
them to rencAved effort. An Easter hymn, sent to the chil- 
dren by our good Bishop Lay, concluded the exercises. 

Dr. Wheat pronounced the benediction, and from many 
hearts went up the silent prayer, ''God bless the Church ! God 
bless the clergy." 

A. D. 1886. This "Reminiscence" was sent to Dr. 
V.'heat, wliich he acknowledged most cordially at Barrytown, 
"N". y., April 13, ISSG, referring to the "little tots" who had 
become matrons, in conclusion : 

"How very glad I should be to see them now! Your 
good husband and your children all — God bless them ! And 
1 should like mucli to see your new Church and worship with 
you in it. But, wife and I are too old (80| and S4^) to think 
of journeying so far again ; indeed, 

"I do not ask to see 
The distant scene: one step enough for me." 

"I wish you would write me a real gossiping letter about 
you all, and my old beloved friends and parishioners gen- 
erally. Wife sends you the accompanying wedding song, 
Avith her kindest regards. 

'T^nto God's most gracious favor and protection I com- 
mit you all, and am, my dear daughter, 

"Yours truly, 

"J. T. WHEAT." 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 143 

EPITHALAMIUM TO MY DEAR WIFE 

ON THE SIXTIETH ANNIVEKSAKY OF OUK WEDDING DAY, 

MARCH 10, 1885. 

Would you know, dear wife, the meaning 

Of the singular gradation 

III the value of the Weddings — 

Wood, Tin, Silver, Golden, Diamond — 

Which, by wide-prevailing custom. 

Are to Married Life accorded ? 

'T is the sole consideration 

Of the rareness of the fortune 

AVhich befalls the Happy Couple 

Should both lives bo long continued. 

Half a century Golden Weddings 

Are so distant and uncertain 

That the cunning Twenty-fivers, 

Under plea of "Carpe diem," 

Introduced the Silver Wedding, 

Not so rare, therefore, less costly. 

Going down from Tin to Wooden, 

As the years were less in number, 

Less the value of the wedding. 

When we had, dear Wife, our Golden, 

Far too distant and too precious 

For our fondest hopes' aspiring 

Seem'd the grand climact'ric Diamond. 

Scientists, you know, have told us 

That the basis of the diamond 

Is, in truth, but common charcoal. 

Could there be a greater contrast ? 

See ! this black, coarse, soiling substance ; 

See ! the diamond pure and brilliant, 

So between ourselves, beloved, 

Vile and miserable sinners. 

And the Christ-like saints in Heaven 

Made illustrious Avith His glory, 



144 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Still more striking is the contrast. 
Oil ! what power in earth or heaven 
Can effect such wondrous changes '( 
Only that of the Almighty. 
jSTot with human observatioUj 
But in secrecy and silence, 
This mysterious new creation. 
As in Matter, so in Spirit, 
Out of death the new life issues. 
That of matter, of course, painless ; 
Ours by sanctified affliction. 
And most gladly should we suffer 
If thereby we may attain to 
Meetness for the bliss of Heaven, 
Holy, pure, and undetiled, 
Christ-like, sharing in His glory. 
Welcome ! then the fiery furnace, 
If from dross it purify us. 
Welcome ! wheel of lapidary 
With unsparing, sharp abrasion, 
If it make the gem more lustrous. 
Welcome ! knife, if skillful pruning 
Give the vine still richer clusters. 
Welcome ! the strong hand uprooting 
From its habitat congenial. 

Keed, so delicate and slender, 
Stripping it of grace and beauty, 
Mutilating, scarring, notching, 
Pressing out its very life-]>ith. 
If, thereby, it may be fitted 
To breathe strains of heavenly music, 
When the anguish of the singer 
Gives the song its touching pathos. 

As our Heavenly Fsither orders 
All things lovingly and wisely. 
There must be a special fitness 
In His various disj>ensations 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIbT CHURCH PARISH. 145 

To work out our soul's salvation ; 
This, dear Wife, has been His purpose 
In our married life's extension. 
Let us be devoutly thankful 
And go forward with fresh courage ; 
He that hath begun the good work 
Will assuredly complete it. 
But the question now arises — 
Years of Married Life — how many 
Must precede the Diamond Wedding? 
Some say Seventy-live, some Sixty, 
We have reached this latter period, 
But as we could not ask diamonds 
E'en from those who love us dearlv, 
While, alas ! Ave nmst confess it. 
All our charcoal's not transmuted — 
That, in Paradise, we hope for. 
Till then we must be contented 
With our Sixty years' attainment. 
What, dear Wife, shall be its symbol ? 
Pearl, I think, will be a2:)propriate ; 
Both have had a like formation. 
Let us note the wondrtius process. 

A grain of sand, or other substance 
Foreign to it, uncongenial, 
Finds a lodgment in the Oyster, 
Sorely hurts its sens'tive body, 
And the sufferer has no power 
To expel the mischief-maker. 
But, behold ! a nuirv'lous instinct 
Covers over the intruder 
With a formative secretion 
That by slow degrees gives roundness 
To the sharp, aggressive angles ; 
Moulds it to a sphere, whose surface, 
Finished to a polished smoothness, 
Causes no more irritation. 



146 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Meekly, patiently accepting 

The inevitable presence 

As a part of its existence, 

And when dying, as its life-work, 

Yields a perfect Gem, all lovely 

With the sky-tint's soft reflections ; 

Lovelier far beyond the suif'ring, 

And of value, too, transcending 

The great cost of its production. 

So, dear Wife, it sometimes happens 

That in Married Life, the sweetest, 

There unfortunately enters 

Some discordant, most unwelcome, 

Foreign element of suff'ring 

And unrest — what the Apostle 

Calls a "thorn" — from which he vainly 

Prayed the Lord to be delivered, 

Or perhaps it is a burden 

Or a cross which must he carried. 

Some thus dealt with chafe against it, 

Till their feelings — lacerated 

By its hard and cruel edges — 

Become morbid and embittered, 

And thus make its very presence 

A perpetual pain and poison. 

Others, wisely recognizing 

The high purpose for which trials 

And afflictions are appointed 

In the training of God's children, 

]\reekly take this dispensation ; 

Though it press them hard and sharply. 

Still they wear it with sweet patience, 

]\raking it thei-eliy more easy. 

Day-by-day, to bear the burden, 

Till at length, 'tis seen to issue 

Tn their spiritual improvement 

And the growth of Christian G,races. 

Tims the character's developed. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 147 

And tlirough suft'riiig is made perfect — 
Fully rounded out and radiant 
With the beauty of Christ-likeness — 
As the Dew-drop with the Sunbeam. 
I^ote, dear Wife, that I'm referring 
In these diif'rent illustrations 
ISTot to you nor me exclusive, 
But to our Married Life, distinctly, 
And for that I may claim fairly 
That these Sixty years' experience 
Has a Union formed between us — 
I^either giv'n nor tak'n in Marriage — 
But in nature like the Angels', 
Which our Blessed Lord has promised, 
Where no flesh nor blood can enter 
With earth's appetites and passions. 
This new life — the old transfigured — 
Pearl-like, full-orb'd, radiant, heavenly. 
Is to us, "of great price," "goodly," 
(In the Gospel nomenclature,) 
Therefore, with devout thanksgiving. 
We will take the "cup of Blessing," 
With glad hearts and voices singing, 
Here we'll raise our "Ebenezer" — 
Hitherto the Lord has help'd us — 
Surely all our past experience 
Should with Hope and Trust inspire us 
That His grace will be sufficient 
In the future. Let us, therefore, 
Keep the feast of our Pearl wedding, 
Plighting troth, and vows renewing. 
In the strength of an affection 
Holier, stronger, than our First-love ; 
What has here this blest beginning 
Must endure in heaven forever. 

J. T. WHEAT. 



148 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Following this there caiiic^ some months afterwards, a 
brief note from the subject of the pearl wedding poem, accom- 
panying a second poem, from Salisbury, Ji. C. 

Mrs. Dr. CantreJl : 

Dear Ellen — I hope 1 replied to yours. * * * J 
have been nursing my dear husband for three months, and he 
has, only within a iew weeks been convalescing, after a severe 
attack of pneumonia. I am thankful to say he is much 
better. I send you my lovely poem, yet hoping you saw the 
one I sent to Major Adams, as I hoped. Do write me soon 
and tell me of your dear self and family also. 

Love to all you love, from your old Pastor and his wife, 

SELINA WHEAT. 

Do tell me of Mrs. Churchill — does she live in Little 
Rock ? Mr. Crease hopes still to visit your city. 

(This was Mr. Orlando Crease, of w^honi Mrs. Wheat 
had written in a former letter.) 

The wedding song is here given : 

TRIBUTAEY VERSES TO MY DEAR WIFE 

ON THE EIGHTY-FIRST ANXIVERSARY OF HER BIRTHDAY, 
SEPTE]\[BER 12, 1886. 

Eighty-one years, you have numbered 

In Life's pilgrimage, my darling ; 

Yet you keep your youthful spirits — 

What a marvel of endurance ! 

In your character's formation 

Many elements, and varied, 

Are harmoniously blended. 

France and Scotland, severally. 

Huguenot and Cath'lic mingling; 

Massachusetts and Virginia, 

Thrift and Chiv'lry, "met together," 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 149 

North and South "have kissed each other." 

What a charming combination — 

"Useful and the Ornamental" — 

For the Wife of a poor Parson ! 

Energetic, sympathizing 

With whatever is occurring — 

All you read of in the papers, 

All you hear of friends and kinsfolk. 

Keeping up a correspondence 

With them all — their common center — 

Binding scattered ones together; 

Always some sage plan contriving, 

Often Airy-Castles building, 

Chiefly for the good of others. 

"Old Virginny never tire !" 

Your endeavor to help others 

Shows itself on all occasions. 

And embraces all creation ! 

Did kind Providence permit it, 

You would outvie Queen Victoria — 

Empress of more num'rous subjects. 

And far greater benefactions. 

My good wife is truly pious ; 
A Churchwoman, staunch and zealous. 
Yet, in Christian love, embraces 
All who, being God's dear children. 
Show it by their Christ-like spirit — 
By Avhatever name distinguished. 
Diligently reads her Bible, 
And her favorite ''Bogatsky" : 
Loves to go to Church, whatever 
Special service or occasion 
]\ray call worshippers together ; 
Likes to roam through Cemeteries, 
Tracing on old, time-worn tomb-stones, 
Quaint devices and inscriptions. 
She's a lineal descendant. 
As, en hadinage, I tell her, 



150 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Of that cjiieer man in Scott's novel, 
Old Mortality, the Sculptor. 

Wife's most striking characteristic 
Is her faithful, ardent, clinging 
To her family and kinsfolk, 
Whether gone to Paradise, or 
Still living — all are bound up 
In her heart of hearts, forever. 
She's the wonderfulest woman, 
Of whom I have an}- knowledge — 
Sui gen vis, no one like her ! 
Calmly brooding, as the Halcyon, 
In the smiling, summer weather ; 
Buoyant as the Petrel, riding 
On the crest of stormy billows. 

Wife's resiliency's a blessing 
For which I am very thankful. 
What if she had been despondent 
In the dark days of affliction ? 
Or an invalid, requiring 
Constant care, and whim-indulgence ? 
Oh, how diff 'rent my experience ! 
Saved from cares injiumerable, 
By a Helpmeet, self-reliant. 
Bent on all domestic duties, 
And yet thoughtful of her neighbors : 
Seeking out the poor and needy. 
Helping them in want or sickness, 

Not alone with worldly comforts. 
But with sjuritual consolations. 

Yes, dear Wife, I sing your virtues — 
Others, if they will, may fault you — 
But your husband, quoting Shakespeare, 
Tells you, "In your commendation 
I am fed"— a perfect ''Love Feast" — 
Like that of the early Christians. 

Paying you my Annual Tribute 
Or connneniorative verses. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 151 

I would give congratulations, 

Not in customary phrases, — 

Wishing this day's oft recurrence — 

Thus implying that a limit 

May be put to your existence, 

When Earth's Birthdays shall have ended. 

Dear Wife, I would have you, rather, 

Rest on Christ's distinct assurance, 

"He that liveth and believeth 

Me, shall never die." Now, dearest, 

You are liting and believing 

In Christ, only, for Salvation, 

Therefore, You shall live forever! 

"Know God, and His Son Christ Jesus" — 

"This," He says, ''is Life Eternal." 

Cannot we, without presumption, 

Say we "know" our God and Saviour ? 

Though it be as little children 

Really know an earthly parent ? 

Little do they know about him — 

Whence he came, or what his business — 

But they know full well his person ; 

Fearless run each day to meet him ; 

Climb into his arms exulting; 

Give and take love's fond caresses; 

Tell him all their joys and sorrows; 

All their numerous wants and wishes; 

Oft olfending, oft repenting, 

Living in a state of pardon; 

Never for a moment doubting 

That he loves them, and will, always. 

"Who's your father ?" asks a stranger, 

"Don't you know him?" says the children, — 

Wond'ring much at such a question — 

"Why, ive know him just as easy! 

"Just as easy," does the Christian 

Know and love his Heavenl}^ Father. 

Constant intercourse assures us 



152 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

That He is, and the Eewarder 

Of all those that seek Him, truly, 

Giving thanks, and praying, always : 

With all prayer and supplication, 

In the Sjiirit, and communing 

With the ever-present Saviour, 

A peculiar freshness, vigor. 

And reality, is given 

To the new life we have in Him: 

And His face, divinely tender, 

Seems, almost, an open vision. 

Kot from overwrought excitement, 

Or fanatical delusion, — 

Always short-lived, and unreal — 

But in constant, close comnmnion, 

In the stillness of the closet ; 

And, sometimes, beneath the shadow 

Of some overwhelming Sorrow, 

Which has wrought its special purpose, 

Chastened and subdued the spirit, 

'Till, not only dwelling ^vith Him, 

But completely hiding in Him, 

With a sense, unutterable. 

Of security forever ! — 

Faith and Hope and Love made perfect. 

Multitudes of simple Christians, 
Ignorant of Controversy, 
Through the witness of God's Spirit, 
In their own hearts, have discovered 
That, in truth, the Blessed Bible 
Is the voice of God, there speaking 
In this Age of Skepticism. 
Faith grows strong by Contemplation, 
Not of abstract truth, or dogma. 
But of Christ, Himself, in Person — 
All that He has done and suffered; 
Death and Hell for us o'ercoming; 
At His Father's riirht hand seated. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 153 

In the fulness of His power, 
^'Bringing many souls to Glorj." 

Presently, another Birthday 
Both of us, dear Wife, will welcome — 
When we know not, neither ivhich, first, 
Or, if God please, both together — 
His good pleasure we're awaiting. 

The same Wisdom, Power, and Goodness, 
Which, when we were born, the First time, 
Made provision for our coming 
Into a new mode of being. 
Will do so, at our next Birthday, 
What more absolutely helpless 
Than the newborn, human infant ( 
Left uncared for, it would perish. 
But the Merciful Creator 
Brings it safely through all dangers. 

So, dear Wife, when God's "'ood Angels 
To a higher life transport us. 
We shall be, again, as helpless, 
But as absolutely safe, too. 
He who did so wisely order 
This life's opening, will as surely 
To that nobler one exalt us. 
Nothing shocking, nothing monstrous, 
Or unnatural, shall happen ; 
Left alone, for not one moment. 
Under convoy of good Angels, 
(As "was Lazarus, Christ tells us,) 
Into Paradise emerging, 
We shall not be among strangers : 
Th' older members of the fam'ly 
Into loving arms will take us, 
With unutterable gladness ; 
Friends and kinsfolk will come, eager 
To congratulate and welcome. 

We can, now, form no conception 
Of the mode of that existence: 



154 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

But both Moses and Elias^ 

Though, then, disembodied spirits, 

Seen at Christ's transfiguration. 

Were both recognized by Peter. 

And those Spirits, ''in safe keeping," 

Whom our Saviour went and "preached to," 

Must have known and understood Him. 

If St. Paul thought it "far better," 

From the body to be "absent," 

That he might with Christ be "present," 

Surely, then, he must have thought of 

A Communion, far more perfect, 

Than is possible in this world. 

When, at parting, Christ Avould comfort 

His disconsolate disciples, 

Was it not with the assurance, 

That He'd come again, in Person, 

And unto Himself receive them. 

When a place was ready for them. 

In His Father's "many mansions ?" 

Yes, dear Wife, our "Elder Brother," 

(Oh, what wondrous condescension! 

He, Himself, claims that relation.) 

Gone to a far-distant country. 

To prej)are a new home for us — 

There to dwell with Him forever — 

Gives this comforting assurance, 

When we come to the last Station, 

We shall find Him there to welcome: 

He the ])atli of life will show us: 

Fullest joy is in his presence; 

At His right hand pleasures endless, 

Made like Him I To share His glory! 

What a destiny awaits us ! 

Take, dear Wife, love's benediction: 
May your Birthdays, all, be tending 
Toward the glorious consummation. 
Which my poor muse has, so feebly, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 155 

Striven now to set before yon. 
May onr loving Heavenly Father 
Do more for yon, and far better, 
Than your hnsband can conceive of, 
Or find words wherewith to ntter. 

J. T. WHEAT. 

Mrs. Chnrchill, referred to in the letter of Mrs. Selina 
Wheat, is the wife of ex-Governor Thomas J. Churchill, who 
was lieutenant in the Avar with Mexico, and brigadier general 
in the Civil War; the daughter of Senator Ambrose H. 
Sevier, and granddaughter of Judge and Mrs. Benjamin 
Johnson. These grandparents were prominent members of 
the Christian Church, but their daughter, Mrs. Jordan, and 
granddaughters, Mrs. Churchill, Mrs. Shelby Williams, and 
Mrs. J. Cabell Breckinridge, Mrs. L. P. Gibson, Miss Matilda 
Jordan, Mrs. John McClintock, and great grandson, John C 
Breckinridge, Jr., are all baptized Episcopalians. General 
Churchill was a member of the Yestry during the incumbency 
of Eev. A, r. Freeman. 

The name of E. W. Jolinsoti, United States Senator from 
Arkansas for six years, and Confederate States Senator for 
four years, occurs on the list of subscribers to the first Episco- 
pal Church. He was the eldest son of Judge Benjamin John- 
son and Matilda Williams, his wife, who were among the 
founders of the sect called ''The Disciples of Christ," in 
Tittle Eock. Robert W. Johnson married Sarah Smith, and 
their children were Ben. S., Robert (deceased), Francis and 
Sarah. 

Bcnj. S. Johnson was baj)tized in infancy in the Epis- 
copal Church. He married Lina Vandergrift. Their 
children were Adele (deceased) and James Vandergrift, who 
all became members of the PresbvteriaTi Church. 



156 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Francis Johnson, who married May Fulton Curran. 
Their children are mentioned in his wife's line, Fulton. 

Sarah, daughter of R. W. Johnson, married J. Cabell 
Breckinridge. Their children were Jolm C, Laura, who 
married John C. Ten Evck, and had Breckinridge, Julia, 
ail'! John, Eobert (deceased), and Benjamin.* 

Irene, daughter of Judge Benj. Johnson and Matilda 
Williams, his wife, married, first. Dr. John A. Jordan. Their 
children were Matilda Johnson, Robert W., who married 
Effie Williford, one child, Irene Effie ; Mary, Avho married 
L. P. Gibson ; their children are Irene, Louise, and Helen ; 
and Irene Jordan (deceased). Mrs. Jordan was married a 
second time to Dr. C. M. Taylor. Their daughter Maude 
married John McOlintock : Children, Alexander, Robert 
Johnson, Laura Breckinridge, and John. 

Annie Sevier, daughter of Juliette Johnson and A. H. 
Sevier, granddaughter of Judge Benj. Johnson and Matilda 
Williams, his wife, married T. J. Churchill. Their children 
were Abby (deceased), Sevier (deceased), Samuel J., who 
married Katie Hooper; children, Thomas J., Marie, and 
Hooper; Juliette married R. L. Goodrich; Emily married 
John Calef; Mattie married Edmund Langhorne; children, 
Annie Sevier, Churchill, and Agnes. 

Mattie Sevier, daughter of Juliette Johnson and Am- 
brose H. Sevier, married Shelby W^illiams. Their children 



■ xu"^°^° C. Breckinridge, here named as a baptized member of Christ Church, was 
in the skirmish which preceded the taking of Coamo, Porto Rico, August 11, 1898, by 
the Sixteenth PeiniHylvania, General Wilson in command. Ten of the Sixteenth were 
wounded. Richard Harding Davis, special correspondent of the Herald, made a 
graphic report of the incident. "General Wilson's two aids. Captain Breckinridge 
and Lieutenant Titus, with Captain Paget, the British naval attache, and four cor- 
respondents (one of whom was the narrator) entered the town in full speed amid 
snouts and white flags, to find it empty of American troops and that unwittingly and 
unwillingly we had been offered its .surrender! Captain Breckinridge and Lieutenant 
ntus looked at eacb oth(^r\s shoulder strat)s and Lieutenant Titus congratulated his 
superior oftcer on having taken a town of five thousand inhabitants with six men. 
inen they borrowed a flag of truce and wigwagged to the Sixteenth that it was safe 
to come m. 




1:T. i;KV. HENRY CHAMPLIN LAY, D. D.. LL. D, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 157 

\vere Shelby, who married Mrs. Frazee ; Maud, who married 
Robert Bonnie; children, Mattie Sevier, Shelby, ISTannie 
Fassman, married Wentworth Johnston; children, Shelby 
and Sevier, a minor. 

Ambrose Hundley Sevier, who married Imogene Wright, 
was at one time treasurer of Christ Church. Children already 
mimed in his wife's line (Fulton). 



RT. REV. HENRY CHAMPLIN LAY, S. T. D., 
D. D., LL. D. 

A. D. 1823-1860. Ri. Rev. Henry Champlin Lay, S. 
T. D., D. D., LL. D., was born at Richmond, Va., December 
6, 1823. He was the second son of John Olmsted Lay and 
Lucy (May) Lay, his wife. He went to school in Richmond 
and New York City ; entered the University of Virginia Oc- 
tober, 1839 ; received the degree of Master of Arts July, 1842. 
While at the university he was confirmed in Christ Church, 
Charlottesville, Va., by Bishop Moore; studied theology at 
the Virginia Theological Seminary, near Alexandria. While 
at the Seminary he taught Greek at the Episcopal High 
School near by, for some months ; was made a Deacon July, 
1846, bj^ Bishop Meade and sent to take charge of the 
Churches in Lynnhaven Parish, Princess Anne County, Va. 
He remained there for six months. He became greatly 
attached to some of the people, especially to the family with 
whom he lodged, and they were much devoted to him, but 
Bishop Cobbs, whom he had known and loved for seven years, 
urged him to come to his help. He wanted him to take 
charge of the congregation in Huntsville, Ala., and said, 
"Henry, if you could see the field you would not dare to 
refuse." He was married to Elizabeth Withers Atkinson, 



158 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

May 13, 1847, and arrived in Huntsville on June 10. The 
nearest Church or clergyman southward was 150 miles 
away; westward, 70 miles; northward the nearest was about 
50 miles in the Diocese of Tennessee. Far away to the 
east, one might be reached in Georgia. For four or live 
months he held services in the courthouse, until a very attrac- 
tive, but small Church — begun before he came — was finished. 
There was but one male communicant, who had been a fellow- 
student at the University of Virginia. In this "Church of 
the Nativity" in Huntsville. Ala., he was ordained Priest, by 
Bishop Cobbs, July, 1848. In a few years the little Church 
became far too small and a new and beautiful one was built. 
Though not entirely complete, the first service was held in it 
on Easter Sunday, April 24, 1859. This he had to leave, 
for at the General Convention in Richmond, Va., on October 
23 of that year, he was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the 
Southwest by Bishops Meade, Mcllvaine, Otey, Polk, Whit- 
tingham, Stephen Elliott, C^obbs, and Atkinson. The juris- 
diction assigned to him consisted of Arkansas, Indian Ter- 
ritory, New Mexico, and Arizona. He began his first visi- 
tation in December, 1859. In April, 1860, he set out with 
his family for Fort Smith, Ark., but owing to low water in 
the Arkansas Bivcr, did not reach there till June 24. 

A. D. 1862-1885. In March, 1862, he set oif to take 
his family to Huntsville, Ala., intending to return to Arkan- 
sas immediately, but on the third morning after his arrival 
tb.ere, the Federal troops entered the town and for several 
months he was not permitted to leave. Once, he was a close 
prisoner for two Vv^eeks, guarded day and night by two sol- 
diers, one on each side. No sort of charge was brought 
against him, but he was arrested, solely, as being a citizen of 
influence, in syui])atliy witli tlio South. It was hoped that 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 159 

lie miglit be induced to take the oath of allegiance to the 
United States, and that thereby others might be induced to 
take it also. He never took it. In the autumn^ as soon as 
he could, he returned to his jurisdiction. Most of that win- 
ter was spent in Little Rock, holding services and doing all 
in his power to help and comfort the people. By request of 
Bishop Polk, who had been made a general in the Confederate 
army, he made a visitation in Louisiana. Early in 1864, 
having been asked by Bishop Elliott to hold confirmation 
service in the Confederate army in Georgia, he was for some 
months with General Joseph E. Johnston's corps, and after- 
wards was with it, when it was under General Hood's com- 
mand. When the war ended he, with Bishop Atkinson, of 
Xortli Carolina, determined to attend the General Conven- 
tion of 1865, which met in Philadelphia, Penn. How much 
inconsiderate action their presence averted, it is needless to 
inquire ; how much good it did, can scarcely be estimated ! 
He returned to Arkansas as soon thereafter as he could, but 
it was not till late in October, 1866, that he brought his 
family to Little Rock. In the summer of 1867 he attended 
the first Lambeth Conference at London.* After his return 
to the United States, at Cambridge, he received the degree 
of LL. T). He had previously, while still in Huntsville, re- 
ceived the degree of S. T. D. from Hobart College, and after- 
wards that of D. D., from William and Marv College in Vir- 
ginia. In 1869 he was translated from the Missionary field 
of the Southwest to the Diocese of Easton, in Maryland. He 
was one of the committee on the lectionary and spent much 
time and thought on the work. He also spent much time in the 
work of the committee on the enrichment of the Prayer Book, 



*Ijainbeth Palace has been the official residence of the archbishops of Canterbury 
for several centuries. 



160 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

but did ]iot live to see the book authorized and printed. He 
died in Baltimore on 17th of September, 1885, after an ill- 
ness of six months, and was buried in Easton on St. Matthew's 
Day. Among his published writings are ''Letters to a Man, 
Bewildered Among Many Counselors," "Studies in the 
Church," "Keady and Desirous," "The Mysteries of Provi- 
dence," "The Church in the Nation," being the Paddock Lec- 
tures for 1885. It was while delivering these that he was 
taken ill, and the last lecture had to be read by another. 
They were his last work. Besides these, there were a good 
many sermons and articles in "TAc Churchman^ from his pen. 
Bishop Lay's wife was Elizabeth Withers Atkijison, 
daughter of Roger B. Atkinson, who was the brother of 
Bishop Atkinson, of Virginia, and grandson of Mr. Roger 
Atkinson, of Mannsfield, near Petersburg. He was the first 
Atkinson of this family who came to this country, and was 
an old ^'^estryman and staunch friend of the Church in that 
place. In Bishop Meade's book "Old Cliurches and 
Families of Virginia," volume 1, article XVII, page 220, 
there is an extract from a letter of his to his brother-in-law, 
Mr. Samuel Pleasants, of Philadelphia. In this letter, 
written before the Revolutionary War, he draws the portraits 
of the members sent to the first congress from Virginia, before 
the men he wrote of had made themselves famous. 

Of Patrick Henry he says : "lie is a real half-Quaker — 
your brother's man — moderate and mild, and in religious mat- 
ters a saint ; but the very d — 1 in politics — a son of thunder. 
He will shake tlie Sejiate. Some years ago he had liked to 
have talked treason into the House." Of Peyton Randolph 
he says: "A veneral)le man, whom I well know and love; 
an honest man ; has knowledge, temper, experience, judg- 
ment — al)ove all, integrity: a true Roman spirit. He, I 
find, is chairman. The clioico will do honor to the judges. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 161 

and the chainnan will do lionor to the choice." Of Richard 
Henry Lee he says : ''I think I know the man, and I like 
him : need I say more i He was the second choice, and he 
was my second choice." Of .George Washington he says: 
''He is a soldier — a warrior; he is a modest man; sensible; 
speaks little; in action, cool, like a Bishop at his prayers." 
Of Colonel Bland he says : "A wary, old experienced veteran 
at the bar, and in the Senate ; has something of the look 'of 
old musty parchments, which he handleth and studieth much. 
He formerly wrote a treatise against the Quakers on water- 
baptism." Of Benjamin Harrison he says: "He is your 
neighbor and brotlier-in-law to the Speaker (Peyton Ran- 
dolph) : I need not describe him." Of Mr. Pendleton he 
says: "The last and best, though all good. The last shall 
be first says the Scripture. He is an humble and religious 
man and must be exalted. He is a smooth-tongued speaker, 
and, though not so old, may be compared to old ISTestor — 

" 'Experienced Xestor, in persuasion skill'd 
Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd' " 

A. D. 1 658. Mrs. Lay is also eighth in direct lineal 
descent from Richard Bennett, one of the Colonial Commis- 
sioners, who was elected governor of Virginia, to succeed Sir 
Wm. Berkeley, and who retired from office March 13, 1G58, 
having been succeeded by Edward Digges. She is also 
sixtli in lineal descent from Richard Bland, who married 
Elizal)etli, daughter of Colonel William Randolph. The 
Bennetts, Randolphs, and Blands were her paternal ancestors. 
On her mother's side she ascends through her grandmother, 
Elizabeth Withers, to Mr. and Mrs. Grammar, whom Bishoj) 
Meade describes as "saintly people, on whom, for a consid- 
erable time, by general consent, the very existence of the Epis- 
copal Church in Petersburg seemed to hang. I need not 
speak, or seek for any epitaph. They live in the hearts of 
children and children's children vet alive, and in the 



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memories of manv others who revere their characters and en- 
deavor to follow their example. The social prayer meetings 
held at their lionse, when the old ladv was nnable any longer 
to go to the House of God, were refreshing seasons to minis- 
ters and i)eople." — Vol. 1, art. XL., page 447. 

^[v. Thomas Withers li\'ed' "hard by the Old Saponey 
Church," and ]\[rs. Withers "taught a Sunday School there 
for many years, often entirely unaided." After Henry 
C'hamplin Lay, when a youth of eighteen, was graduated at 
ihe University of Virginia as master of arts, he taught for 
two years before he entered the Theological Seminary. ''Dur- 
ing these two years he was a regular teacher in the Sunday 
School at Old Saponey, and in this way gave help to the old 
lady, who continued to teach there, furnishing all the books, 
tickets, prizes, etc., that were needed. She and her husband 
had the Church cleaned, fires made, etc., for fifty years." 

Into this atmosphere of piety and brotherly love came 
the young university student, and for his reverence and zeal 
was rewarded by Providence with the blessing of a wife 
trained under the same spirit and influences, for he after- 
wards married the granddaughter and namechild of this 
saintly old lady. That this influence was the predominat- 
ing one of hei- life, is shown by her reply to the question, 
"Why are you not an associate member of the Society of 
Colonial Dames of America?" "Because that takes time 
and money." 

The children of Bislio]) Henry C. Lay and Elizabeth 
W ithers Atkinson^ his wife, were nine. Five died young. 
Of these, Thomas Atkinson died in Fort Smith, Ark., and 
Klizabeth Withers in Little Kock. 

J/riirj/ ('., the oldest living child, is a civil and mining 
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County, Colo. Resides in Telluride, Colo. He is un- 
married. 

George is a Priest of the Church and a Master at St. 
Paul's School, Concord, X. H., of which Rev. Dr. Joseph 
Coit is Rector. He was married in Baltimore in June, 
1894, to Anna Balch, a daughter of Rear Admiral Balch, who 
was retired and lives there. They have two children, George 
Balch and Elizabeth Atkinson. 

Beirne is a Master at St. Paul's School. Both George 
and Beirne went to St. Paul's School and afterwards gradu- 
ated at Yale. Beirne Lay is unmarried. 

Louisa Lay was born in Little Rock. 

OUR LORD, THE PATTERN TO THE BISHOPS OF 
HIS CHURCH: — 

A sermon preached in Grace Church, in the City of New 
York, on the occasion of the consecration of the Rev. Charles 
Franklin Robertson, S. T. D., as Bishop of Missouri, by 
Henry Champlin ].ay, D. D., LL. D., Missionary Bishop of 
the Southwest : 

The consecration of the Rev. Charles Franklin Robert- 
son, D. I)., to the Ejnscopate of Missouri^ took place on the 
morning of the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, October 25, 
A. D. l!sOy, at Grace Church, in the city of New York. 
Prayers were read by the Rev. Josiah P. Tustin^i D. D., of the 
Diocese of Michigan, assisted by the Rev. Sidney Corbett, of 
the Diocese of Illinois, and the Rev. John C. IMiddleton of 
the Diocese of Connecticut. 

The testimonials of the Bishop elect were read by the 
Rev. William Stevens Perry, Secretary of the House of Cler- 
ical and Lay Deputies, and the Rev. Henrv C. Potter, D. D., 
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164 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

from tlie Diocese of Missouri were the Rev. Edward F. Berk- 
ley, D. D., of St. Louis, and the Rev. William B. Corbjn, 
D. D., of Palmyra. The presiding Bishop was assisted in the 
services by the Bishops of Michigan, "Virginia, Iowa and ISTew 
York. The sermon was preached by the Missionary Bishop 
of Arkansas. A large attendance of the clerical and lay 
deputies of the General Convention, together wath a congre- 
gation tilling every portion of the spacious Church chosen 
for this interesting ceremony, attested a widespread interest 
in these services, which were to add another to the number 
of our Bishojjs, and give to a bereaved Diocese its chosen 
head. The Holy Communion was administered to a large num- 
ber of the clergy and laity. 

At the close of services, the presiding Bishop having 
called the Bishops and clergy together, on motion of the Rev. 
William Stevens Perry, the thanks of the Bishops and clergy 
in attendance were unaniniouslv tendered to the Rio-lit Rev, 
Dr. Lay, for the vliscourse just delivered, and a copy of the 
same respectfully requested for publication. 

SERMON. 

'"When the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a 
crown of glonj that fadetJi not away." — 1 Peter v. 4. 

The names and titles of our Blessed Lord have ever 
funiished to devout minds themes of pleasant meditation. 
No one epithet can adequately describe Him; and thus 
prophet and psalmist, apostle and evangelist, and angel of the 
annunciation and the Exile of Patmos, have united to ransack 
the stores of language, to draw from them its sublimest 
words and its most endearing epithets, thus accumulating 
around the person of our Lord every title of worth and dignity 
until His name, in itself secret and incommunicable, is 
ponred forth as ointment and diffused throus'hout His 



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C'liiircli in the liundreJ varying titles Avliicli express His 
majesty and His mercy. 

Seldom, indeed, does the Church make mention of her 
Lord without adding some words expressive of her reverence 
and affection. She has no sympathy with the unseeming 
familiarity which utters commonly the name of Jesus with no 
added word of honor ; she invokes Him ever by some sacred 
title ; she speaks to us of Him with some reverent description 
of His person or of His work; she varies that description 
with the occasion of her speech. At the bedside of the suf- 
ferer, Christ is "the Saviour of the world, who, by His cross 
and passion has redeemed us." Beside the open grave, He 
is "The Resurrection and the Life ;" and yet again in the In- 
stitution office and in the Ordinal, she adopts the language 
favorite with St. Peter; she pleads "Thy merits, O Blessed 
Jesus, Thou gracious Bishop and Shepherd of our souls!" 
She encourages her newly-consecrated Bishop with the prayer 
that "When the Chief Shepherd shall appear," he may 
receive the never-fading crown of glory. 

Times there are, my brethren, in the experience of life, 
when one or another of our Lord's titles falls upon the ear with 
singular sweetness. Times there are of new" trial and added 
responsibility, when there flashes upon us the true force and 
meaning of some word that has been familiar to the ear and 
often upon the lips. Thus is it with the name before us. 
While every Christian delights to say "The Lord is my 
Shepherd," Avho can, as the Shepherd and the Bishop of 
Christ's flock, realize the comfort and the awfulness of the 
thought, that there is One who is himself Bishop and Chief 
Shepherd ; One who has exercised in person the ministry and 
oversight entrusted to us ; One in whose steps we tread, and 
at whose feet each pastoral staff is presently to be laid. Our 
Lord's life on earth is the fair pattern, wdiich none of us 
indeed can equal, but Avhicli men in eveiw station must strive 
to copy and reproduce. Woe is unto us, if Ave accept as our 
ideal anything below His sinless example and His finished 
Avork ! Our little children find in Him the example of filial 
duty ; to Him we are wont to direct the eyes of the worker 

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166 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

and the siitl'erer. And is tliero no special lesson in that life 
for those to whom chiefly He has confided the interests dearest 
to His heart 'i As man, we present Him as the example for 
all men to follow ; as Bishoj) and chief Pastor well may we 
present Him to ourselves. Well may the Church, in form- 
ing her estimate of the Episcopal otRce, and in determining' 
the qualifications which should belong to the chief Pastors, 
keep ever in her view the Holy One, her Chief Shepherd and 
the Bishop of our souls. 

Ouit Lord, the Pattern to the Bishops of His 
Chukch. Such is the lesson which we attempt to unfold to- 
day ; a theme so sacred and so beautiful that we approach it 
tremblingly and with awe. Far be it from us, like the un- 
believers or half-believers of the day, to criticise the sacred 
story, and self-complacently to express our approbation of the 
words and methods of the Master ; no ! we stand in the pres- 
ence of an incarnate wisdom too vast for us to judge : and 
upon bended knee we follow the traces of its march on earth, 
happy if we may unquestioning tread where Christ's sacred 
feet have left their impress. 

In our Lord's work as in His person, the human and the 
divine so shade into each other that we can draw no absolute 
line of demarcation. Without pretending to divide, we may 
yet distinguish two elements in the office He discharged to- 
wards His infant Church. He was its Bishop and its Para- 
clete. Wlien He went away to Heaven, the divine function 
was assumed by that other Comforter, that ever-blessed Crea- 
tor-Spirit, whose living presence in the Church gives to the 
consecration in wdiich we are presently to engage all its energy 
and truth ; and the human function, the earthly Episcopate, 
was conferred upon the College of the Apostles and their suc- 
cessors in oflice until the end of the world. 

We may not even for a moment leave out of mind that 
divinity which separates by so vast an interval the Chief Shep- 
herd from those who are noAv set to feed His flock; but we 
may yet, I trust, without irreverence, fasten our thoughts upon 
the Inniian as])ect of our Lord's work on earth, and analvze the 



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character of His Episco})ate, as furnishing that true ideal 
which the Church should ever seek to realize. 

Let us then recall our Lord's Episcopate in His inter- 
course with His Pastors, in the guidance of the Laity, and yet 
again in its personal characteristics. We are to consider, 

I, — The ( 'jiiEF SiiEPiiEiiu Amoxo His Pastoiis. 

And here we are reminded at once, what unceasing care, 
and labor, and diligence, our Master expended upon His sub- 
ordinates in the sacred ministry ; a care almost disproportion- 
ate, one might say, in view of the multitudes who thronged 
His path and hung upon His words. Careful He was to 
select from among the believers such as He deemed competent 
to this sacred function. How imperatively He summoned 
the fisherman from his net and the publican from his engage- 
ments ! and how distinctly He repelled the proifered service 
of such as would volunteer in IHs cause, without realizing its 
responsibilities and trials I 

To say that He was accessible to His clergy would be a 
weak statement. He kept them habitually about His per- 
son, He was seldom separated from them ; and this, although 
He was doid)tless often weary of company, and longed for 
the repose of solitude and the society of His uninterrupted 
thought. He did not merely instruct them in the duties of 
their oliice ; He carried them with Him ! He showed them by 
exani])le how ignorance should be enlightened, how suffering 
should be relieved^ how favor should be borne, how agony 
should be endiired. 

With what marvellous skill did He train and strengthen 
them for usefulness ! as they made progress in Christian 
virtue, detaching them from His person, yet even then only 
for brief periods, and in little companies, so that one might 
strengthen another; leading them from one responsibility to 
another, from lesser trials to greater, now exposing them to 
danger with PHmself in the bark, and presently dismissing 
them to buffet the storm alone, unknowing that He upon the 
mountain top watched for their safety, thus leading them on 



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Step by step until -that sorrowful moment when His visible 
presence was altogether withdrawn. 

Wonderfully considerate was the Chief Shepherd of His 
colaborers. He would not overwork them. "Come ye 
yourselves apart into a desert place^ and rest awhile; for 
there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure 
so much as to eat." Wonderfully patient was He with their 
defects of understanding and their infirmities of spirit. How 
did He bear with the unintelligence of Philip, the melancholy 
of Thomas, the impetuosity of Peter ! and then what mingled 
familiarity and dignity in His intercourse with them all ! He 
treated them as friends rather than as subordinates ! and yet 
there was a line of reverence which they might not overpass. 

If Peter, overzealous for BLis Master's reputation, under- 
takes that He shall pay His quota towards sustaining the ser- 
vices of the Temple, He rebukes him for the concession of the 
claim, while yet He works a miracle rather than expose His. 
disciple to the mortification of failing to meet the engagement. 
.A lid then, how beautiful the picture of John leaning on the 
Chief Shepherd's bosom ! In that holy familiarity, how mar- 
vellously do we see the profoundest reverence reconciled with 
the most genial friendship. 

In view of these things, we do not fear to affirm that 
every Christian Bisliop should regard himself first and chiefly 
as the Pastor of Pastors ; and among his varied responsibili- 
ties and duties should set in the foremost place, those which 
appertain to the calling of men to sacred ministries, prepar- 
ing them for their work, directing them in its prosecution, sus- 
taining them under its trials, i^ot content to accept such as 
come to him, to ]H'esi(le over their deliberations, to interpose 
when some great mischief impends, he wdio patterns after 
that ]>erfect example will identify himself with those in holy 
orders, and ex])end upon them the chief of his strength and 
the wealth of his affections. 

There is much complaint in these days of the deficiency 
of clergymen. We have need to exhort parents to consecrate 
their c]iildr(>n to the service of the altar, and the laitv in 



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general to facilitate the theological education and to sustain 
the clergy. But we must not forget that ordaining, sending 
and laying hands upon others is peculiarly the function of the 
Bishop. It is his special duty to make choice of lit persons to 
serve in the sacred ministry ; to suggest its claims to young- 
men before their profession is chosen, to call into its 
ranks such as seem adapted for its holy employments. What 
if it seem cruel to separate the sons of Zebedee from an aged 
parent ! what though the world may deem it extravagant to 
summon men from lucrative employments to comparative 
poverty ! The Gospel must be preached, and we must send 
the men to preach it. Surely we do not err, if, following our 
Lord's example, we break in upon men's repose ; now demand- 
ing, authoritatively, Go thou and preach the Gospel ; now 
entreating, lovingly, Come with us, and be with us fishers of 
men. 

The Bishop should be the friend and father of his clergy, 
extending to them a larger measure of confidence and sym- 
pathy than it is possible to give to all the members of the flock. 
]^or is this any disadvantage to the flock ; for each instruction 
and consolation afforded the clergymen, is diffused through 
him to hundreds within his care. How much do pastors need 
a Pastor ! How instinctively does the Priest or the Deacon in 
his doubts and anxieties, in distress and need, look to his 
Bishop ! How little does the Avorld know of the filial confi- 
dence and the fatherly benignit}', the touching story of morti- 
fications and trials told Avithout reserve, the gentle pity and 
manly encouragement, which have often characterized the 
correspondence between the Bishops and their clergy ! Oh, 
how wondrous is the power of a Bishop who is a true father 
to his clergy! How does he mould the opinions of the lielp- 
ers, and impart to them his motliods, and infuse his own great 
thought into the minds of others ! 

The Chief Shepherd had ever patience with His apostles. 
He explained things to them when they were alone togetlier. 
He rebuked them, and sharply too, sometimes, but never, that 
I can recollect, in the presence of the people, where their credit 
might be impaired. He wrung the very soul of Peter once 



170 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

with His rebuke, and yet while lie rebuked, renewed the 
expression of His coniidence and uttered no harsher word 
than "Simon, son of JonaSj lovest thou Me?" — And oh, 
brethren, a Bishop after this pattern ; who stands in the 
center of the sacred order; not afraid to take responsibility, 
but serene and firm, teaching men of less experience and 
more timid nature ; the Bishop who under no conceivable cir- 
cumstances will admit that any competition of interests can 
exist between himself and his brethren^ and in the midst of 
frowardness thinks only how to bring about a better mind ; 
the Bishop who can enlighten ignorance without wounding 
self-respect, who can direct energies witliout fettering them 
by undue interference, whose ready sympathy never wearies, 
whose cordial affection sustains his clergy in all their 
troubles ; such a Bishop may be after all but an earthen vessel, 
but in that poor earth men will recognize the outline and the 
likeness of Him in whom dwelt all the fulness of the God- 
head bodily, the Chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls. 

How can Ave fail to obserA'e the persistence with which 
our Lord sought to elevate His chosen ones in their self- 
estimate and in the esteem of the people ! When He fed 
multitudes, did He not give them an important share in that 
work of love ? Did He not advise with them wlien He him- 
self knew what He w^ould do ? Did He not leave it to them 
to baptize the converts to the faith? Did He not within 
limits admit them into the mystery of IDs own griefs and 
troubles? With such an example well may the Bishop learn 
to make much of his clergy ; studiously to honor them before 
the people ; to choose from among them his confidants, and 
to invite the same sympatln' which he is so often called upon 
to extend. But, brethren, all this is impracticable unless 
there be something of dignified reserve, some recognitions of 
official superiority. We dare not claim for ourselves such 
reverence, such obedience, as the sinless One did rightly claim. 
But as rulers in God's family, and in the following of Christ's 
example, the Bishop should know how to assert the dignity of 
Ins office, how to re])el unwarrantable freedoms, and~how to 



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keep easy and confidential friendsliip from slipping down 
into unseemly familiarity. 

But I may not dwell further upon this theme which has 
rather heen suggested than expounded. Let us consider, 

II. — The Chief Shepherd among His People. 

If we regard our Lord as a Bishop among His people, we 
i^ecognize at once the fact that He was the chief preacher 
Avithin His self-appointed diocese of Judea. If we think of 
Him as the Missionary Bishop (for such He truly was), how 
great the activity of His personal ministry ! The sermons 
and the labors which are recorded are but specimens of his 
toil. Had the wliole been written, St. John intimates that 
the volumes of that record Avould have been innumerable. In 
public and in private, by the seaside and on the mount, at 
the rich man's table, in the synagogue and in the porches of 
the temple, He ceased not to teach and to preach. He drove 
back His sorrows resolutely into His own breast, and taught 
still in His trouble. In the very presence of death He kept 
not silence but spake still of the Comforter. 

Think of the long journeys, the villages visited in succes- 
sion, the long continued speech to attentive crowds, the 
patient dealing with an individual soul, the pause to bless the 
little babes, the thoughtfulness that encouraged Zaccheus to 
stand forth and speak out his religious purpose. Brethren, 
how plain is this instruction ! Make all allowance necessary 
to be made for a religion in its infancy which could be spread 
only by the living voice ; grant that in our day the Bishop 
must often sit alone and think ; must plan and organize and 
shape work for other hands ; and still there stands plain 
before us the lesson that the Bishop must go about doing 
good, and as he goes must preach. He cannot do all the 
work ])iniself ; it were vain to attempt it; but he can lead the 
Avay; he can show. his willingness to share in whatever toils 
and hardships belong to the clergy ; he can by his example 
teach others hoAv to recognize an opportunity and then how 
to use it; l)v his dealinii- with an individual soul he can 



172 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

instruct the unexperienced man of God, as books would never 
teach him, how to silence the disputations, to cheer the 
penitent, to comfort the mourner. 

And this reminds us of that wondrous prudence which 
characterized our Master's ministrations among the people. 
What contradiction of sinners ag;ainst Himself did He en- 
dure ! What a throng of captious, prejudiced, unreasonable 
men surrounded Him. But He aroused no unnecessary pre- 
judice; again and again he stayed His speech or withdrew 
His person to avoid tumult. If men addressed Him with 
artful words intending to entrap Him, He did not hesitate to 
avoid the false issue, and to retort upon them the sharp ques- 
tion. How often did He make men who pretended ignor- 
ance, answer themselves, and turn away self-condenmed by 
the exposure of their insincerity ! How varied his teaching 
according to circumstances and persons ! In his example we 
find no warrant for that narrowness which utters ever the 
same formula and the same doctrine to all sorts of people. To 
the self-complacent Pharisee Pie held up the better example 
of the half-heathen Samaritan, wdiile presently conversing 
with the Samaritan He identifies Himself with the Jews, and 
affirms the authority of the Jewish Church. He taught the 
doctrine of the new birth of man's nature to one half-hearted 
and secret inquirer — while to Xathanael He uttered words 
of commendation only. I need not multiply illustrations. 
These things assure us that the Christian Bishop should, 
while valiant for the truth, be wise enough to avoid useless 
controversy ; while doing good to others, be careful to protect 
himself from needless animadversion. They tell us that the 
Bishoj:) should be large-minded in his work ; not going out 
furnished with a few set phrases or favorite dogmas, thrown 
out without discrimination ; but richly stored with all true 
doctrine and all right words, rightly dividing the blessed 
truth ; giving to each man his portion — urging repentance 
upon one, confession upon another ; now persuading a man to 
believe and now to do some act of self-sacrifice ; now rising in 
indignation at the profanation of holy things, and now pro- 
testing against the lading of unnecessary burdens upon the 



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conscience of the faithful. Tliere is nothing in our Lord's 
life and example to encourage a narrow partjisni. How won- 
drously different, some might say almost contradictory, were 
His utterances according to the occasion that prompted His 
speech ! Persistently did He press the deep and spiritual 
truths of religion, yet did He not hesitate to give His testi- 
mony to the value of things external. There is a singular 
bunumness in our Lord's hovering around the temple during 
that sad week of expectancy which preceded His death. We 
know how a certain restlessness conies over men when death 
is near, and who, though they have wandered far, they come 
home to die. And as we read the story of the brief road so 
often traversed between Bethany and Jerusalem, the lingering 
in the temple, the pause in the twilight, and the musing eye 
fixed still on Zion, we recognize the truth that our Lord not 
only loved His Father, but held also in affection His Father's 
house. 

The Bishop, least of all men, should be the slave of party 
or of prejudices. Sobriety of judgment, love of truth, 
should characterize all his ministrations. Xo ridicule 
sliould avail to make him ashamed of the system which he ad- 
ministers, to hide its true features, or to explain it away to 
meet the demands of miscalled charity; while no admiration 
of a system or a method should restrain him from keeping 
always in the foreground the great essential truths destined 
to survive when all systems shall have passed away. 

ff we analyze in its human aspects that influence which 
our Lord wielded over the masses, we cannot fail to observe 
that it was largely due to the commingling of gentleness with 
severity ; oftenest He was gentle ; most full of pity, affable and 
ready to make allowance ; oftenest but not always. He was 
the Lamb of God, but when occasion demanded He showed 
Himself in the majesty of holy wrath, the Lion of the tribe 
of Judah. Strange that a speech so full of gentleness should 
rise at times into so fearful an invective. But who save the 
habitually gentle can rightly be severe ? what wrath can so 
terrify the evildoer as the wrath of the Lamb ? Listen to that 
fearful denunciation : "Woe unto vou Scribes and Pliari- 



174 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

sees, lijpocrites !" Woe folloAvs upon woe, anathema upon 
anathema, straining our hearts as He approaches the climax, 
and ahnost alarming us lest when it be reached He shall 
remand them all into the hands of inexorable justice. But 
when all that torrent of burning words has been uttered, and 
while the threat of "the damnation of hell" rings into our ears 
and thrills the inmost soul, there succeeds by most abrupt 
li'ansition the wail of pity, a cry of anguish such as defiance 
itself can scarce resist: ''O Jerusalem! O Jerusalem!" The 
world has enough of stern critics, and bitter censors ; but, oh, 
sweet pity ! angel of healing and of consolation ! If thou hast 
n home on earthy it should be in the breast of a Christian 
Bishop, causing liim,^ like his Master, as he looks upon the 
guilty city, to weep over it, teaching him where men discover 
only the sin, to recognize the sorrow, where men condemn, to 
utter words of absolution. Gentle pity ! be thou in our 
hearts, and how tenderly shall we bind up the spiritual wound, 
and how patiently will the sufferer endure the pains of heal- 
ing ! and then in the presence of wrong and outragOj of veiled 
hypocrisy and shameless effrontery, who can as the pitiful 
;ind the gentle abash the scorner and terrify the wrongdoer, 
wliile he denounces against them the judgments of the ]\rost 
Higli! Such is the example afforded by this Chief Bishop 
among His flock ! ruling His people prudently, with all His 
power, yet gentle among them even as a nurse cherisheth her 
children. 

I pass on to consider — 

III- — The Chief Shepherd, with Kevere.xce be it 
Spoken, iisr the Personal Characteristics of 
His Episcopate. 

How overwhelming is the thought that He, the sinless 
one, used self-discipline; the discipline of fastings, watchings 
and voluntary retirement; that He, the all-wise, chose not the 
twelve, but after a night spent in prayer! that He illustrated 
by His example what He taught iis in precept, of certain 



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fierce professions, "this kind can come forth by nothing but 
by prayer and fasting." 

liow single minded was lie in Ilis work ! What cared 
He for on earth save the welfare of His infant Chnrch ^ 
What were meat and drink to Him save as they strengthened 
Him for this gracious task ^ and yet how void was He of all 
asceticism ! Pie came eating and drinking like other men ; 
He dined with the rich man on the Sabbath day ; Pie was 
known as the friend of publicans and sinners ; He disregarded 
the ablutions and artificial tests of piety, of which the religion- 
ists of that day made so much. We are not left without 
numerous intimations of a constant regard to the welfare of 
His flock in His life and conduct. Recall such passages as 
these: "For their sakes I sanctify Myself;" " Notwithstand- 
ing lest we offend them," do thus and so. "The good shep- 
herd" (He seems here as in soliloquy, to utter the secret of 
His own pastorate), 'Svhen he putteth forth his own sheep, 
goeth before them." "While I was with them in the world, 
I kept them in Thy name." These and the like utterances 
assure us how deeply the chief Pastor realized the respon- 
sibility laid upon Him in the guidance of the flock, and how 
He ordered all His life with reference to that responsibility. 

Thus, brethren beloved in the Lord, have I attempted to 
speak to you of a theme which I am not able to expound. But 
thus much, perchance, our poor words may have impressed 
upon you for a moment, that the blessed Jesus, King, and 
Priest_; and Prophet, is our Bishop, too ; One who has borne 
the pastoral staff on earth, and who did thus bear it, not only 
in love for the flock, but for the guidance of such as He 
should set over them in the latter days. Well may we study 
this pattern ! and well may the Church seek to put in her chief 
places Bishops eminent for those qualities which makes them 
most like the Chief Bishop ; men of lofty self-consecration, 
men of gentle hearts, men of prudence and discretion ; men 
Avho will take heed to themselves and to all the flock over 
which the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers. 

Into this company of Pastors, my brother-elect, it is now 
my privilege to welcome you. We have diligently inquired 



176 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

concerning von ; and however severe may be the ordeal, let 
none complain that the Church should be jealous in behalf of 
her Episcopate, and should carefully scrutinize the qualifica- 
tions of such as are jDresented to her for so holy a trust. 

I am bold to say to you that the results of this inquiry 
have been satisfactory. God has not left you destitute of His 
manifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them for His honor and 
glory in your ministry heretofore. Well may we, in view 
of the past, anticipate for you an Episcopate of solid merit 
and of steadily increasing usefulness. 

You go forth to a new country, an untried office, among 
a stranger flock. You are to diffuse abroad that Gospel 
which teaches as its sublimest truth that there is sympathy in 
heaven for man. Let that same word be your comfort in 
every trouble ! Henceforth there is to be another bond of 
sympathy between you and your blessed Lord. He himself 
was Bishop upon earth ; He knows the trial and the burden 
of the office. In becoming a Bishop, you pass in some things 
beyond the limits of ordinary sympathies, but you go up into 
a nearer and closer intimacy and communion with Him 
who gathered first the flock and guided them a little way 
with His own hand before He resigned them to our care. 
It is not presumptuous to affirm that He has a special tender- 
ness for His faithful copartners in this work, and that when 
we reach the farther shore He will stand ready to greet us 
with peculiar rewards of grace. 

Lean then upon the Chief Shepherd, and take His Epis- 
copate in its great features as the pattern of your own. No 
human art can make a good and efficient Bishop. That man 
will most excel who, with childlike simplicity, copies the one 
perfect exemplar. 

Oh, my Brother! take good heed to the three things 
whicli stand forth so ])lainly in the chief ministry of tlio 
Son of God. Cherish your clergy. Be the chief mission- 
ary within your Diocese. Show yourself a pattern of good 
works, and you will not live in vain. The erring shall be 
brought into the fold of Christ. Brethren shall dwell 
fogf'tlicr in nnitv. Your Diocese shall increase in strenjjth 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 177 

and saintliness, and at the last when the Chief Shepherd shall 
appear receive a crown of glory that f adetli not away ! 



Perhaps the domestic side of Bishop Lay's life could 
not be more simply or more attractively given than in the 
letters to one of his parishioners, which are here transcribed.* 

A. D. 18661869. 

Huntsville, Ala., July 23, 1866. 
My Dear Mrs. Cantrell : 

I have been here some ten days with my little flock 
around me. I find Mrs. Lay quite well and the little girl 
has gotten quite fat. She has no muscle to speak of, but 
she is content to lie on her back and kick for an hour at a 
time. This change from complete emaciation, and within 
about three weeks, we feel to be a great blessing. Henry 
comes back to us in good health, and has, I hope, done well 
at school. I am considering what to do with him next year. 
Oh that we could have good schools in Arkansas ! 

The unexpected summons to Helena has deranged my 
plans for the summer. I became sick and found it would 
not do to travel on steamboat in July. I hardly know what 
my arrangements will be, only, if cholera does not prevent, I 
shall have to go north before I return to Arkansas. T long 
for the time when I shall have a home and be able to concen- 
trate my efforts. Our parish is in good hands and I hope 
]\Ir. Robertf will find much encouragement in his labors. I 
am anxious to make it a model parish in spirituality and in 
missionary zeal. The Church music here is at present 
mainly performed by the children and is very SAveet. They 
chant the Psalter very well. I will bring back all the good 
ideas I can pick up. I have always a vei\y affectionate recol- 



*Bishop Tjay's first parish was in Princess Anne County Virginia, the birth-place 
of the Annalist. 

tAccented on the last .syllable. 



178 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

lection of your hospitable home. Remember me most kindly 
to the Doctor, to Miss Mary,* and all the girls, especially 
kiss the baby for me. 

We have lately heard of the death of two saints very 
dear to us. The first was Mrs. Shipp, of Lincolnton, IST. C, 
one of the loveliest women I ever knew. We were perfect 
strangers to her; but she could not have been kinder if Mrs. 
Lay had been her own sister. The other is Mrs. Lay's great 
aunt, Mrs. Walker, of Petersbi-sj-g, with whom she lived for 
some nine years while at school. She was a woman of re- 
markable judgment and strong will. A widow of 55 years, 
she gave all her thoughts and efforts to the Church. She 
kept open house for the clergy and was known everywhere as 
Good Aunt Walker. The day of judgment alone will reveal 
how much good that quiet, sickly woman did in this wicked 
world. She was so giad to be released from sickness and 
pain. It is a comfort to know that there are such good 
people passing away into rest. May many such grow up in 
Arkansas ! 

Most truly your friend, 

HENRY C. LAY. 

Mrs. Cantrell, Little Rock. 

There is another extract from a letter w^-itten three 
years later, after he had arrived at his new Diocese, dated 
Easton, Md., April 28, 1S69. 

My Dear Mrs. Cantrell : 

Our journey was a very fatiguing one, the more so, 
for the many friends and acquaintances who occupied us at 
our halting places. We were taken possession of immedi- 
ately on our arrival by Mr. and Mrs. Golsborough, and car- 
ried to a hospitable home, where we shall spend some weeks. 

They have thrown themselves very heartily into our 
affairs, and will relieve us of much care and trouble in set- 
tling ourselves. The town of Easton is about a mile from 



♦Miss Mary E. Harrell. 



THE ANNALS Of CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 179 

the water. The steamboat runs in about five hours from 
Baltimore to Easton Point, the landing for the town. Just 
across a creek from Easton Point is a large farm of Dr. 
Adkins. He has just removed into town and rents us his 
farm home, with the garden, grounds and stables. The 
view is beautiful, looking out upon the salt water. Plenty 
of green grass and shady trees. The house is handsome, 
with six large rooms and a tower of three stories, each story 
giving a nicely finished room 16 x 16. There are porches 
and blinds enough to make it cool in summer. We expect 
to warm the main part of the house, five rooms and passages, 
with two stoves, burning hard coal. They have here what 
they call "self-feeders." The fire burns only at the bottom 
and the coal settles down as it is consumed, so that the stove 
burns straight ahead for twenty-four hours. 

We have an icehouse besides, and buy milk from a 
dairy on the farm. ]\ly little boys are amusing themselves 
to-day cutting asparagus, which grows wild along the water's 
edge. 

So we shall be comfortable, you see. We shall have 
troubles and trials I doubt not. I see enough to know^ that 
it will require energy and prudence to develop the Diocese., 
But we trust to be guided aright. With much love to the 
Doctor, the girls, and the baby, and all friends, 
Yours affectionately, 

HENRY C. LAY. 

A. D. 1 859-1 866. About the time Dr. J. T. Wheat was 
installed as Bector of Christ Church, Little Bock, or not long 
after, Bev. Henry C. Lay, of "The Church of the Nativity," 
in Huntsville, Ala., was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the 
Southwest, which included Arkansas. He made a visitation 
in the spring of 1S59, but having chosen Fort Smith as a place 
of residence, he did not remove his family to Little Bock 
until 1866. Dr. Wheat joined the Confederate army as 
chaplain in 1863. After his resignation, Bishop Lay was 



180 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

elected Rector of Christ Churchy and for a time performed 
the duties of both offices — Bishop and Presbyter. He made 
his lodging in the Vestry room of the Church and took his 
meals at the homes of his parishioners, successively. In this 
way his flock came to know him intimately and to love him. 
Dignity, combined with gentleness, gave to his manner an 
unusual charm which was heightened by a voice of singular 
sweetness. This, with the friendly humor and sympathy 
that marked his intercourse with children, caused them to 
become his loyal subjects. When he, with his family, arrived 
from Alabama after peace had been established, Mr. and Mrs. 
Gilbert Knapp received them at their hospitable home on 
Seventh street and Rector avenue. Afterwards they began 
housekeeping in the cottage on southeast corner of Sixth and 
Sherman streets. The eldest son, Henry, had been left behind 
at school, and two sturdy boys, George and Bierne, with baby 
Bettie, formed tlu? household. When the Bishop returned 
from the Pan-Anglican Conference of Bishops at London, 
which was held at Lambeth Palace, he occasionally indulged 
in a jocose reference to the ''Bishop's Palace," at Little Rock. 
He afterwards bought the property now owned by Colonel 
James Mitchell, on Fifteenth and Spring. To the original 
building he added, on the southwest corner, a commodious 
study. This was well equipped with books and I doubt 
whctlier he would have exchanged with the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, when once established. On one occasion the 
writer was entertained in this study. After discussing the 
new books and magazines, he said : "'Here is a charming 
poem, that I will read to you, if I may." Of course there 
was but one reply. Witli tones that made music to the Avords, 
he read — 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 181 



CHRIST AND THE LITTLE ONES. 

"The ]\Iaster has come over Jordan," 

Said Hannah, the mother, one day ; 
He is healing the people who throng Him, 
With a touch of his finger, they say. 

"And now I shall carry the children, 

Little Rachel, and Samuel, and John, 
I shall carry the baby, Esther, 

For the Lord to look upon." 

The father looked at her kindly. 

But he shook his head and smiled : 

Now who but a doting mother 

Would think of a thing so wild ? 

"If the children were tortured by demons. 
Or dying of fever, 'twere well ; 
Or had they the taint of the leper. 
Like many in Israel." 

"Nay, do not hinder me, Nathan, 
I feel such a burden of care 
If I carry it to the Master, 

Perhaps I shall leave it there. 

"If he la}' His hand on the children 

lly heart will be lighter I know. 
For a blessing forever and ever 

Will follow them as they go." 

So over the hills of Judah, 

Alono' bv the vine rows sreen, 

W^ith Esther asleep on her bosom 

And Rachel, her brothers between. 

'Mid the people who hung on His teaching 
Or waited His touch and His word, — 
Through the row of proud Pharisees listening. 
She j)ressed to the feet of the Lord. 



182 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

'Xow wliv sliouklst thou hinder the Master?" 
Said Peter, "with children like these ? 
Seest not how from morning to evening 
He teacheth and healeth disease f 

Then Christ said, "Forbid not the children, 
Permit them to come unto Me I" 

And he took in His arms little Esther, 
And Rachel he set on his knee; 

And the heavy heart of the mother 

Was lifted all earthcare above, 
As he laid His hand on the brothers 

And blest them with tenderest love; 

As he said of the babes in His bosom^ 

"Of such are the kingdom of heaven," 

And strength for all duty and trial 

That hour to her spirit was given. 

— Julia Gill. 

It is a comfort to think that the mothers were objects of 
sympathy, to one v/hose beautiful utterances and persuasive 
eloquence had moved the reverend assembly of Bishops ! 
Surely a shepherd after the pattern of his Master ! As his 
Episcopal duties crowded in upon him. Bishop Lay called to 
his assistance, with the consent of the congregation, the Rev. 
P. G. Robert, of Virginia, late chaplain in the Southern 
army, who, in the course of a year, was elected Rector of 
Christ Church, the Bishop resigning all duty except that of 
his Episcopate. The Bishop was not robust in physique, 
and as he would set out in his ambulance to scale the moun- 
tains of Arkansas, his physician, Dr. Cantrell, would add 
many little comforts, that he foresaw would be needed to 
strengthen him on the route. He was better adapted to wield 
a pen whose influence would be felt through the confines of 
the Anglican Church than to carry the Gospel in person as a 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 183 

missionary. So that he was translated to the Diocese of 
Easton in 1869, and Christ Church lost her most beautiful 
lecturer and sermonizer. One Good Friday sermon, "Alone ; 
Yet I am iSTot Alone, Because the Father is With Me," and 
another Easter sermon, ''Who Shall Roll us Away the Stone 
from the Door of the Sepulchre V will never be forgotten 
here. 

After Little Rock was occupied by the Federal army the 
( 'hurch was appropriated for a hospital for the sick soldiers. 
Bishop Lay was the guest of Judge Ringo at that time and 
inaugurated home services, which were conducted by lay 
readers at private houses, principally at the homes of Judge 
Ringo and Mrs. Judge Watkins, the Sunday School organ 
having been moved from house to house to lead the singing. 
When the Church was cleared of the sick, the Rev. E, Steele 
Peek, chaplain of General Steele's division, held the usual 
Sunday services there. A few of the Sunday School teachers 
i-eturned to their charge. Mr. Peek inquired for the Sun- 
day School organ. LeaT'ning that it was at the house of 
Judge W^atkins, he requested one of the teachers to ask that 
it be returned to the Church. At that time such a request 
was felt to equal a command. Still Mrs. Watkins hesitated 
to comply, without advice from the Vestrymen of the Church. 
Another request was forwarded to her from Mr. Peek and the 
organ was delivered up and placed at the head of the aisle, 
near the chancel in the Church. For several Sundays the 
services went on peacefully. Mr. Peek was an upright, 
humane. Christian minister, bent on doing his duty. None 
felt the premonition of the explosion which soon followed. 
One Sunday morning at Sunday School, Mr. Peek was 
observed to go from class lo class interviewing each teacher. 
At length he announced in deprecating tones, to the consterna- 



184 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

tion of all, that the organ had been taken from the Church! 
For some time subsequently a vain search was made for the 
missing instrument. After many months it was traced to a 
Church in one of the Xorthwestern States, where it had been 
sent by the Federal soldiers, probablv those who had been 
sheltered there in sickness, as confiscated property ! It was 
never returned, to Mr. Peek's undying chagrin. He did 
everything in his power to show his sympathy to a conquered 
foe, and won the love and gratitude of the community by his 
daily ministrations until death to the heroic martyr^ David 
O. Dodd, who was executed as a spy, January 8, 1864. 

REV. P. G. ROBERT.* 

Rev. P. G. Robert was first called from Virginia as as- 
sistant to Bishop Lay in the duties of Rector, but soon suc- 
ceeded to the full charge as Rector. From The Church News, 
the official paper of the Diocese of Missouri, Rt. Rev. D. S. 
'J'uttle, D. D., Bishop, volume 26, St. Louis, June 15, 1895, 
the following corrected abstract of his life has been taken : 

A. D. 1827. '"Mr. Robert was born in Richmond, Va., 
December 16, 1827. He is the son of John Gibson Robert, of 
a Picard family, which traces back to the twelfth century; 
and of Amanda P. McRae, a lineal descendant of the Lord of 
the Isles. Ho received his preparatory education in the 
Richmond Academy, in the private school of Rev. Geo. A. 
Smith, at Clarens, near Alexandria. It was said of Mr. 
Smith that he "was as near to saintship as men ever get on 
tliis earth." Mr. Robert informs our interviewer that since 
then he has "pulled through by main force and stupidity." 
Ho was for a time clerk in Colonel Walter D. Blair's grocery 
in Richmond, and subsequently in the counting room of John 
D. Mayben, a large dealer in Virginia and Kentuckv tobacco. 



*Acc"«nted on the second syHaT)le. 




REV. P. G. ROBERT. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 185 

Id 1846 his attention was turned toward the ministry, and he 
went to Clarens to brush up his Latin and Grreek, and entered 
the Theological Seminary, Alexandria, the next year. He 
passed his examinations under such men as Drs. Sparrow, 
May, and Packard; which examinations, Mr. Robert insists 
to doubting ears were far more rigid and severe than those 
he inflicts upon the candidates who fall into his hands now 
as examining chaplain ; and was ordained to the Diaconate by 
Bishop Meade, July 12, 1850, at Christ Church, Alexandria. 
He was advanced to the Priesthood by Bishop Johns, Decem- 
ber 18, 1851, at Christ Church, Bruton Parish, Williams- 
burgh, Kev. Chas. Minnegerode and Rev. Edmund Withers, 
examiners. His first duty was assistant to the Rector of St. 
James Church, Richmond, then he was ordered by Bishop 
Meade to Meherrin Parish, Greensville County, and took 
charge as Rector-elect, October 6, 1850, where he remained 
for eight years. He married while there Elizabeth Scott, 
October 5, 1854. Erom 1858 to 1861 he was Rector of 
Christ Church, Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, and St. 
Andrew's, Southwark Parish, Surrey County, a Parish of 
which liis great grandfather. Rev. Christopher McRae, was 
Rector in Colonial times. On the breaking out of the Civil 
War, Mr. Robert was commissioned chaplain in the Confed- 
erate States army, and served in the Second Louisiana, 
Thirty-fourth Virginia Regiments, Second Corps, A. IST. V., 
until he was surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 
1865. He was in nine general engagements, many skirm- 
ishes, and several affairs ; and tells his friends that he is en- 
titled to write "P. P." after his name, which means Paroled 
Prisoner, or Parish Priest, whichever you like. x\.fter the 
war, he '"tauglit school and jdoughed" for a year, when Bishop 
Lay invited him to Little Rock, Ark. He was assistant for 
one year and Rector for two years of Christ Church, Little 
Rock, and in 1869 came to St. Louis, and began to build up 
the Parish of the Holy Communion, preaching his first ser- 
mon as Rector July 6 of that year. Mr. Robert has made 
his impress upon the Church life of St. Louis, and always 
held important trusts in the counsels of the Church, and has 



186 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

also kept an interest, and been an influence in the welfare of 
society and the citv, outside of his immediate work." 



Kev. ^fr. Tvobert is a rare type of a Christian Apostle. 
He presents a combination of virtues — courage, steadfastness, 
unswerving faith, unquestioning obedience, together with a 
great underlying tenderness. He is a man among men, even 
though consecrated to the life of isolation, usually assigned to 
ministers of the Gospel ; a man who holds the key to man's 
nature and knows how to adapt it ; who, while honoring the 
female sex as a great throng of handmaidens of the Lord by 
election, seeks to reach and strengthen those of his own as 
being in more deadly danger from the assaults of the enemy ; 
■ — who holds a visible, though perhaps unspoken, scorn for a 
Avillful villian, but a heart full of great compassion for a 
repentant prodigal — a man, who, being the type of a soldier- 
apostle, has left an impression, large, chivalrous and indelible 
on all the people of Little Eock, irrespective of sect, and an 
influence which will be undying. 

Between Bishop Lay and his assistant, afterwards his 
successor as Parish Rector, there was an abiding friendship, 
sealed perhaps by their experiences as prisoners of war. In 
the wide divergence of paths which separated them after four 
years of comradeship and apostolic companionship, this affec- 
tion never failed. Each pressed on to the same goal, the one 
as the faithful Shepherd of the sheep, during twenty-six years 
of leadership, reaching it first; the other scouring the outposts 
foi- wandering sinners, viewiiiii the end from a calvary of 
suffering, but still sounding the cheerful call of invitation, 
rather than icarninr/. "Come and seer 

After Mr. Bobert had completed that portion of the 
Church ot the Holy Cumnmnion designed for the chapel, in 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 187 

St. Louis, to which place he had been called from Little Rock, 
he made a journey to the Holy Land and shared the pleasures 
of the Oriental visit with his parishioners in weekly letters to 
his parish paper. These were graphic and interesting and 
much enjoyed. Mr. Robert Avas a power in the Sunday 
School. The festivals at Easter were conducted with enthusi- 
asm. He also prepared for the Sunday School of the Holy 
Communion ''Questions on the Llarmony of the Gospels, the 
Catechism and the Theme of Each Sunday." He is now an 
invalid with some heart trouble, but his trustful, loving words 
still warm the hearts and poiiit the hopes of his legions of 
friends. A scheme for an Orphanage in Little Rock origin- 
ated with him. The sum of $340 or $350 had been loaned 
to the Vestry in the first year of Rev. P. G. Robert's Rector- 
ship, M'hich '"was a sum collected by him towards starting an 
orphanage," says a correspondent. "I remember the circum- 
stance well," she continues, "because Mr. Robert told me at 
the time that everything was contributed, even brooms for the 
house. Then he looked for the orphans and could find none 
to put in it ! Therefore the money was loaned to the Vestry — 
a long loan, for when I left Little Rock, I suppose not less 
than ten years afterward, no account of it had been given." 
In reference to this orphanage scheme, Mr. Robert writes : 

"The loan to the Vestry and the failure to find orphans 
is correct. My Lutheran communicants used to adopt every 
orphan child they could find, according to their loving custom, 
God bless them !" 

But the scheme was revived when orphans became more 
plentiful, and at this date, October, 1898, there is an Orphans' 
Home established on Fifth and Connnerce streets, under the 
guardianship of Mrs. James Mitchell, president ; Mrs. J. W. 
Beidelman, vice president; Mrs. John Fletcher, secretary; 



188 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Mrs. John Levering Matthews, assistant secretary, and Mrs. 
Helen Norton, treasurer. There are twenty-eight inmates. 
Of these five are babies. 

The children of Rev. P. G. and Elizabeth Scott Robert 
are: 

1. John Gihson. who married Miss Mary Thweatt Wil- 
son, of Richmond, Va. They have one child, John Gibson 
Robert, Jr. 

2. Edward Scott, unmarried. Born in Virginia. 

3. Dent Hayes, unmarried. Born in Virginia. 

4. Douglas Wilkens. Born in Little Rock. Married 
Eliza Clendenin. 

5. Lee Edward Roljert (Robert E. Lee reversed), un- 
married. Born in St. Louis, Mo. 

Two daughters have ''gone before," Amanda and Bessie. 

The members of the Vestry during the incumbency of 
Rev. P. G. Robert were L. E. Barber, Senior ^Yarden ; John 
Wassell, Junior Warden; Wm. B. Wait, Treasurer; S. L. 
Griffith, Gw^mn Barber, W. A. Cantrell, Daniel Ringo, U. M. 
Rose, T. J. Churchill, B. C. Trapnall, Gordon N. Peay. 

The organist was Dr. J. W. Beidelman. The choir was 
composed of Mrs. Mary Ellen Ives, nee Tucker, afterwards 
Mrs. Strong, Miss Laura Tucker, afterwards Mrs. Hardy, 
Miss Annie Reardon, afterwards Mrs. P. Raleigh, Miss 
Emma Scott, aftei-wai-ds Mrs. James Lawson, Miss Johnanna 
Scott, afterwards JMrs. Clay Ro Bards, Miss Johanna Krause, 
afterwards Mrs. Peter Hotze, Miss Alice Compton, afterwards 
^Irs. George Weaver, General Albert Bishop, Major Smith, 
IT. S. A., Lieutenant Post, U. S. A., Lieutenant Gregory, 
U. S. A.. T. W. Bankes. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 189 

FORMER CHRIST CHURCH RECTOR. 

[ArkcDisas Democrat^ December 15, 1898.] 

Rev. P. G. Robert, who will be remembered by old citi- 
zens as Rector of Christ Church in the sixties, has tendered 
his resignation as Rector of the Ej)iscopal Church of the Holy 
Communion, St. Louis, after nearly thirty years' continuous 
service. Dr. Robert's determination to resign was reached 
after much consideration of the subject, and at the earnest 
solicitation of his physician. The reverend gentleman is suf- 
fering from an affection of the heart, which causes serious 
illness whenever he exerts himself too vigorously. 

Dr. Robert was the founder of the Church from which 
he proposes to resign. He has been its only Rector. He 
has also been for many vears the examining chaplain of the 
Diocese. His resignation as Rector carries with it the resig- 
nation fi-om this office. 

From the Hot Springs (Ark.) Commercial, of date 
December 10, 1898, we transfer the following notice of the 
wife of the former Rector of Christ Church : 

SOMETHING ABOUT A DISTINGUISHED LADY 
DELEGATE 

TO THE ^"ATIOXAL UNITED DAl'CillTEliS OF THE COXFEDEKACY 
CIIAPTEK, WHICH COX VEXED HERE LAST WEEK. 

Mrs. P. G. Robert, a delegate representing the Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy, of St. Louis, Mo., at the convention 
or chapter which met in this city on the 9th ult., was a Miss 
Bettie Scott, of Henrico County, Va. (in which is the city of 
Richmond), having spent portions of her early life in Louis- 
iana at her father's sugar plantation. She is a niece of the 
distinguished officer who commanded the armies of the United 
States in the war with Mexico, and still the ranking officer at 
the beginning of the Civil "War. ]\[ajor-General Wintield Scott. 



190 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Miss Scott married in Kicliiiiond an Episcopal minister, 
who served during the war as chaplain in Stonewall Jackson's 
"foot cavalry;" carried a rifle^ and sometimes shot it, as he 
savs, in self-defense. He went on Jackson's long marches 
as often on foot as mounted ; and was near him when he met 
his calamitous death — most calamitous for the cause of the 
South as it proved ; for had Jackson been with Lee, who called 
him his ''right arm," the latter had not lost the battle of 
Gettysburg — and with it the Southern cause, as Great Britain 
was ready to "intervene'"' if Lee had won that battle. 

^Irs. Robert, thoueh the mother of five 2;rown sons, two 
of whom are lawyers, one an editor, and one a doctor, in St. 
Louis, is a comely lady, who does not appear to have passed 
the vigor of her prime ; for, though somewhat fleshy, her 
luxuriant tresses do not indicate the rapid advance of age. 
She is jovial and kind, but of marked decision of character, 
and possessed of the power of exercising an influence over 
others. Her husband is Rector of the Church of the Holy 
Communion in St. Louis, able, zealous and greatly esteemed. 
Slie has been so long an Episco])al Rector's wife and made it 
a duty to her Cluircdi and her husband to learn human nature, 
that she is tactful and confident in her intercourse with ladies 
in all social I'elations. She made her impress upon the con- 
vention in many ways, as it was to that end she was urged by 
licr associates in St. Louis to attend the convention. IS'ot 
given to any disposition to shine in "oratory," or to any 
fondness for display of ■\\'hatever character, she was keenly 
alive to every detail of the proceedings, and promptly sliared 
in debate when she deemed it appropriate. 

During one of the sittings a point of order was endeav- 
ored to be settled upon the authority of a ruling of Speaker 
R('<'(1, of the laiited States House of Representatives. l\[rs. 
Robert was quickly on her feet and asked: 

"Is his, the speaker's, course to be reasonably thought 
to furnish so high a standard of parliamentary law? Is he 
not rather distinguished as a violator of parliamentary rules; 
a ])arlianientary despot, whom one of the members of Con- 
gress of this State has called a counterfeit of the 'Czar V Let 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 191 

US not coiidnet our proceedings n})on the practices of Tliomas 
Bracket Reed, who is chiefly distinguished, like another ^ton 
of a man,' for Svrenching the true cause the false way.' " She 
then ex])lained her idea of the unfairness of enforcing the rule 
proposed — in her genial and matronly vcRj- Czar Reed's 
j)recedent was ignored. 

Mrs. Robert attended through the entire session, was 
present at all excursions and festivities. There was none 
who became acquainted with her who did not instantly 
admire her and even love her. She was but one of this gather- 
ing of many splendid women who met t<» honor the memory 
of the Southern soldier. 



REV. IIEismY HOB ART :\10RRELL. 

A. D. 1827-1889. Bee. Hennj llohaH Morrell suc- 
ceeded the Rev. P. G. Robert as Rector of Christ Church. He 
w^as born May 17, 1827; ordained Priest by Bishop Mcll- 
vaine in Trinity Church, Columbus, Ohio, March 14, 1856, 
and married October 21 of the same year to [Mary Elizabeth 
Badger, and was in charge of the Church at Dayton, Ohio, 
at the time he was ordained Priest. In 1809 he accepted a 
call to Christ Church, Avhere his work was especially good 
among the poor and needy, his legacy to his successor having 
been a huge hamper basketful of clothing that he had col- 
lected from the congregation for distribution among convales- 
cent small-pox patients. He resigned the position during the 
fall of 1870. Six years after the death of his wife, in 1875, 
he married a widow, Mrs. Annie Ramage Smith, of Knox- 
ville, Tenn., where he had assumed charge of St. John's 
Church from April, 1881, to February, 1886. Following 
this he was engaged in missionary work in Georgia and 
Florida and West Virginia. He died at Wheeling, W. Va., 
Januarv 2, 18S1). There were six children: 



192 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Emma J., unmarried. 

Mary J., married Charles Henry Waring, of Knoxville, 
Tennessee. 

Leonard Mcllvaine, who died June 17, 1877, aged 15 
years. 

Charles K., unmarried. 

Norman Blake, unmarried. 

John Hampton, unmarried. 

The consecration of Henry jSTiles Pierce to the Bishopric 
occurred at this time, who succeeded Mr. Morrell for a limited 
time as Rector of Christ Church as well as Bishop of the 
jurisdiction of Arkansas and Indian Territory. 

From The Little Roch Churchman February, 1888, the 
following reference to this Rector is taken : 

The Rev. Mr. Degen's paper, "The Diocese of Arkan- 
sas,'' has reappeared, after a suspension of six months. The 
contents evince conscientious industry. 

The leading article is a historical sketch of Christ 
Church, Little Rock, illustrated by a beautiful engraving of 
the edifice. The materials at the command of the writer 
were evidently meager, e. g., no mention is made of the Rec- 
torship of the Rev. Dr. Morrell (1869-70), whose ministry 
amidst great difficulties was most faithful. 

The history of this parish remains to be written. 




RT. REV. HENRY NILES PIERCE, D. D., LL. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 193 



RT. REV. HENRY NILES PIERCE, D. D., LL. D. 

A. D. 1 820-1 869. Bt. Rev. Henry Nilcs Pierce, D. D. 
LL. D., fourth Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian 
Territory, was born in Pawtucket, R. I., on the 19th day of 
October, 1820. He was the son of Benjamin Bentley 
Pierce, a Deacon in the Baptist Church at Pawtucket, R. L, 
who was born in East Greenwieli, R. I., in 1786, and died in 
1839. His mother was Susan Walker, born in Pawtucket, 
R. I., March 21, 1784, and died July 30, 1869. The history 
of the Walker family, of the old Plymouth colony, fills a 
volume of 450 pages. His grandfather was Moses Pierce, a 
ship captain, who died at sea about the year 1791, when his 
son, Benjamin Bentley Pierce, was only 5 years old. He was 
the great great grandson of John. Pierce of East Greenwich, 
R. I., who had removed from Newport. 

A. D. 1842-1854. The parents of Rt. Rev. Henry N. 
Pierce were both members of the Baptist Church, and at the 
age of 16 he was baptized into and remained a communicant 
of the same Church for five years. He left the Baptist 
Church because he found to his satisfaction that that Cluirch 
originated in the sixteenth century, and liad no descent from 
apostolic times. He became a communicant of the Episcopal 
Church when about 21 years old. On joining it he was 
hypothetieally baptized. He gvraduated at Brown University, 
Providence, R. I., in 1842; was ordained Deacon at Christ 
Church, Matagorda, Texas, April 23, 1848, by the Rt. Rev. 
George Washington Freeman, D. D. ; ordered Priest in the 
same Church on January 3, 1849, by the same prelate. From 
May, 1848, to May, 1852, four years, he labored as Mission- 
ary at Bre7iham, Washington, Independence and Chapel Hill, 



194 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

in Washington County, Texas ; was the first minister of the 
Episcopal Church that ever settled there. From 1852 to 
the spring of 1851 he was Rector of Christ Church, Mata- 
gorda, Texas. At that place he married, April 18, 1854, 
Miss Nannie Haywood Sheppard, who was born near Selma, 
Ala., March 6, 1830, the daughter of Ahram Sheppard, a 
sugar planter and slaveholder, who was a native of North 
Carolina. Her mother was Eleanor Wallace, of Scotch, 
Irish, and Swiss descent. 

Mrs. Pierce Is the niece of the wife of William Henry 
Haywood, a leading lawyer at Raleigh, and, for a time. United 
States Senator from Xorth Carolina. She was educated at 
St. Marv's School, Raleigh, X. C. 

A. D. 1854 1880. In June, 1S54, Rev. H. X. Pierce 
took temporary charge of Trinity Church, New Orleans, but 
left there in December following. In the spring of 1855 
he became Rector of St. Paul's Church, Rahway, jST. -J., 
and continued in charge until 1857. In October of 1857, 
he became Rector of St. John's Free Church, in ^Mobile, Ala., 
where his income, dependent upon the offering alone, 
amounted to $3,000 per annum until 1868. He established 
there the Church Home for Orphans. While residing there 
in 18C1-G2, he translated Muhlbach's Henry VIII. He re- 
ceived the degree of D. D. from the University of Alabama, 
at Tuscaloosa, in 1862, and that of LL, D. from the college 
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1869. From 
Mobile, Dr. Pierce went to Springfield, 111., where he was 
Rector and Dean of Springfield from November, 1865, to 
January 1, 1870. On January 25, 1870, he was consecrated 
Bisho]) of Arkansas and Indian Territory, in Chi-ist Church, 
Mobile, Ala., by Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, D. D., 
Bishop of Mississippi, assisted by Rt. Rev. Henry John 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 195 

Wliitc4iouse, D. D., LL. D., Oxon; D. C. L., Bishop of 
Illinois ; Rt. Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, D. D., Bishop of 
Alabama ; Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard, S. T. D., LL. D., 
Bishop of Tennessee; Rt. Rev. Josej^h P. B. Wilmer, I). D., 
Bishop of Louisiana^ and Rt. Rev. John Freeman Young, 
S. T. D., Bishop of Florida. 

In March, 1870, lie settled in Little Rock, where he now 
resides in his own home, on Seventeenth and Center streets. 
He is a great student and has a library of more than 3,000 
volumes. He also owns 3,000 acres of rich, wild lands in 
Matagorda County, Texas. The children of Bishop and 
Mrs. H. IST. Pierce are as follows : 

Ahrdluim Wallace, born in Rahway, X. J. ; grad- 
uated at Sewanee TTiiiversity, August, 1877 ; studied for 
the ministry ; has been Rector of Grace Church, Wash- 
ington, and the C^hurch of Our Redeemer, J^ashville; 
Rocky Comfort mission, Arkansas, and is now the successor 
of Rev. D. I. Hobbs, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. He 
is unmarried. 

Henry WalJicr born in Rahway, N. J.; educated at 
Sewanee; married May 4, 1880, Marie Moffat, of English 
birth ; died of rapid consumption, September, at Mobile, Ala., 
where, accompanied by his brother, Wallace, he had gone to 
recruit his waning strength. He was buried at Little Rock 
from Trinity Cathedral, September 4, 1886, by his father, 
the Bishop, assisted by his brother. Rev. A. W. Pierce, of 
Mobile, Ala. 

Elizahelli Powell , born in Mobile, Ala. ; educated at home 
bv her father, and is ranked in the first class of musicians as 
an artiste by the musicians of ]N"ew York^ where she studied 
music several vears. She M'as married at Trinitv Cathedral 



196 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

to Gerry Austin Lyiiiau, of Boston. Her father performed 
the eeremonj'. 

Susan Sheppard, the youngest child, was born in Mobile, 
and educated under the parental roof. She was married to 
Mr. William C. Stevens, son of Bishop Stevens, of Pennsyl- 
vania. Over the non de plume of Sheppard Stevens, she has 
published two novels, "I am the King," and ^'Tlie Sword of 
Justice," both issued previous to the death of her father. 

Bishop Pierce has written sermons, essays, addresses, 
besides a volume of verse entitled ''The Agnostic," with other 
poems, issued by Thomas Whittaker, New York, in 1884. 

At the seventeenth annual Council of the Diocese of Ar- 
kansas, which was held at Christ Church, Little Rock, May 
3, 1889, Bishop Pierce formally accepted the office of Dio- 
cesan, in lieu of ]\Iissionarv Bishop.* 

From The Daily Press Little Rock, of date January 24, 
1895, the following sketch of the life and services of Bishop 
Pierce is reprinted. It was written on the occasion of the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as Bishop : 

RT. REV. HENRY NILES PIERCE, D. D., LL. D. 

TWENTY-KIKTU ANXIVERSARY OF HIS CONSECRATION AS 

BISHOP- — A VERY HAPPY SIIA'ER JUBILEE SKETCH 

OK THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF A MAN WHOM 

ALL ARKANSAS LOVES THE GROWTH OF 

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 

To-morrow, January 25, will witness an event of more 
than ordinary interest, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
consecration of the Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., LL. 
D., as Bishop in the Church of God. The silver jubilee of 
the pastorate of a simple flock, is an event of great interest and 
of congratulations, l)ut tlie silver jubilee of a Bishop, is a far 

*Abstrnct from the hiography of Bishop Pierce in "The Encyclopedia of the New 
West."18Sl. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 197 

more notable event in that the Episcopate is one of the greatest 
monumental evidences of the truth of Jesus and the resurrec- 
tion. Indeed, the Ej^iscopate was raised up for this very 
purpose, that it should be a witness to the resurrection unto 
the end of the world. That one should be spared for a quar- 
ter of a century to participate in this monumental witnessing, 
is an event that must command the attention of all thoughtful 
and earnest men. 

The Kt. Rev. Henry ^"iles Pierce, D. D., LL. D., the 
fourth Bishop of the Missionary jurisdiction of Arkansas, 
and the first Bisliop of the Diocese, Avas born in Pawtucket, 
P. I., October 19, 1820. He was graduated at Brown Uni- 
versity in 1842. After passing his theological examination, 
he was ordained Deacon April 2o, 184o, so that he has been 
in the ministry for fifty-two years. On January 3, 1849, he 
was advanced to the Priesthood, and was successively Rector 
of St. John's Church, Mobile, Ala., and St. Paul's Church, 
Springfield, 111., his Rectorship of the two parishes covering 
a period of twenty years, or from 1850 to 1870. It Avas 
while he was Rector of St. Paul's Church that he was elected 
by the House of Bishops to be the Missionary Bishop of the 
jurisdiction of Arkansas and Indian Territory. His conse- 
cration to the Episcopate took place at Mobile, Ala., on the 
feast of the conversion of St. Paul, January 25, 1870, the 
consecrating Bishops being Bishops Green, of Mississippi, 
AVhitehouse, of Illinois ; R. II. Wilmer, of Alabama ; Quin- 
tard, of Tennessee ; J. P. B. Wilmer, of Louisiana, and 
Young, of Florida. 

It may not be uninteresting to note that Bishop Pierce 
was the ninety-fifth Bishop consecrated in the American line 
of the Episcopate. Of the Bishops then living there were 
fifty-one, there being thus fifty Bishops ranking as his seniors 
in ofiice. During these twenty-five years seventy-nine Bishops 
have been consecrated, making 174 in all. Of these eighty- 
two are still living, and Bishop Pierce ranks fifteenth in the 
order of consecration, thus showing what "manifold changes 
and chances" have characterized the history of the House of 
Bishops. 

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198 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

When the Bishop took charge of the jurisdiction to 
which he was assigned he entered upon a life of hardship, 
sacrifice and unreniitting toiL The field he had entered was 
purely a missionary field, with a few scattered congregations, 
\-ery feeble, both in means and numbers, and far removed 
from one another. The Episcopal visitations involved great 
labor, fatigue and exposure. Only a very strong man physic- 
ally could undertake such work. The only railroad at that 
time in the State was the Memphis and Little Rock, and per- 
haps some portions of other lines. The great Iron Mountain 
system had not yet been completed. The railroad bridge at 
Little Rock was not built until 187:2-73. Traveling in the 
State was mostly by stages, private conveyances and by boat. 
Erom the Bishop's first published record of visitations the 
following extracts are given. Lamenting the small attend- 
ance of the clergy and laity at the council, he says : 

''T know better than most, it may be, the difficulties of 
travel in a State so ill supplied with means of communica- 
tion as Arkansas is, and therein 1 find a partial excuse for the 
many vacancies in this body. 

''May 2, 1871 — Started for Lewisville, but the roads 
being so bad and the carriage out of order, we were obliged 
to return. 

''May 8 — At 2 o'clock in the morning started for Little 
Rock, arriving the next evening. 

"July 21 — At night took a" boat for Fort Smith ; the boat 
small and very greatly crowded. 

"August 18 — At 4 a. m. took stage for Camden, and, 
riding all night, reached my destination next day at 2 p. m." 

The above extracts are simply taken at random and give 
some idea of the missionary field and work upon which the 
Bishop had entered. The old journals, as well as the later 
ones, show that he traveled as many as 8,000 and 9,000 miles 
each year, which is a remarkable record of endurance and 
faithfulness of purpose. 

Shortly after the Bishop's arrival in the State steps were 
taken towards the organizing of the missionary jurisdiction 
of Arkansas into i Diocese. To this end a convocation was 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 199 

held on Ascension Day, ]\lay IS, 1871, at which tlicre were 
present seven clergymen and three lay delegates from three 
parishes. At this meeting a full Diocesan organization was 
decided upon and the Bishop was asked to call the primary 
council of the Diocese of Arkansas to be lield on St. Bartholo- 
mew's Day, August 24, 1871. This primary council met in 
Christ Church, Little Eock, on the day appointed, and set 
forth a constitution and canons, and elected Bishop Pierce as 
Diocesan. The first annual council was likewise held in 
Christ Church, Little Rock, on May 9, 1872. 

Of these early days of the Bishop's Episcopate, very 
little can be found in the way of statistics, showing the condi- 
tion of the Episcopal Church in the State of Arkansas. But 
Church life w^as very feeble, the communicants few in num- 
ber and greatly scattered, and what parishes there were were 
simply at the beginning of things. Long years of patient 
toil, many discouragements and drawbacks, but withal an 
abiding hopefulness must be experienced before anything like 
an assured and confident life could be realized. The Bishop's 
work and that of his clergy was foundation work, and with 
but small means to carry on even that. But already there 
are many evidences of life and strength manifested in this 
still small Diocese that are an earnest of the future. When 
Bishop Pierce took charge there were but five church build- 
ings, one parsonage_, and G05 communicants, as reported by 
Bishop Lay, who was translated to the Diocese of Easton, in 
1869. To-day there are twenty-six church buildings, six- 
teen parsonages, or rectories, one guild hall, one hospital, 
nearly 3,000 communicants, and a Church membership of 
about 15,000. The Diocese has property valued at some- 
thing over $225,000 and the offerings for religious purposes 
average about $30^000 a year. The Episcopal endowment 
fund has gradually grown, and without any special effort for 
its increase, until it now amounts to $13,000. 

One work in this enumeration must not be omitted. 
Bishop Pierce is to be congratulated that the twenty-fifth an- 
niversary of his consecration witnesses the completion of his 
Cathedral and its entire freedom from debt. It has been 



200 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

a marvel to us who were mere onlookers how the Bishop ever 
managed to accomplish so much. Year after year witnessed 
some addition until to-day it stands forth as a fine specimen 
of old English Church architecture and as a monument to the 
Bishop's unfailing faith, business management and of the 
high purpose he has in mind. For several years a burden of 
debt rested upon it which it was thought would take many 
years to lift, but through the large-hearted liberality of a 
member of the Cathedral congregation the debt was paid and 
the Cathedral is now free and ready for consecration. 

Besides building Trinity Cathedral, the Bishop also 
built St. PhilijD's Church and parsonage for the use of the 
colored people of this city. This property is also free from 
debt through the Bishop's own efforts, and the Church is 
ready for consecration. It is used every Sunday by a con- 
gregation of colored people, a minister of their own race, Rev. 
Isaiah Daniels, officiating.* 

But the life of a Bishop is not simply Diocesan ; it 
belongs to the Church Universal ; it touches the throbbing, 
pulsating life of the Church throughout the world. And 
what great events and mighty achievements and advances has 
the venerable Bisliop of Arkansas witnessed during these 
twenty-five years of his Episcopate ! Want of space forbids 
the happy enumeration, but for a moment let us turn our eyes 
on the growth of his own branch of the Church in the United 
States. On the consecration of Bishop Pierce in 1870 the 
Episcopal Church had thirty-nine Dioceses and nine mis- 
sionary jurisdictions, fifty-one Bishops and 2,786 other 
clergy. The number of communicants reported was 170,000. 
In 1895 we find that the number of Dioceses has increased 
from thirty-nine to fifty-three, the missionary jurisdictions 
from nine to eighteen, besides eight missionary jurisdictions 
in foreign lands, and tlie number of Bishops has increased 
from fifty-one to eighty-two, wdiile the number of other clergy 

♦In the Journal of the Twenty- seventh Annual Council of the Diocese of Arkan- 
Sm /J5. J'^^^fu^^ii^ ?' * ^"^ ^- ^- ^- ^"''"•'' th*" val"e of this church huildinff is eiven as 
l^m,(HK) hy the Rector, Rev. Douglas T. Hobbs: Rectorv .$i^,IIIIO. In the parochial report 
ot Rev, Isaiah P. Daniels, tlic colored Rector of St. Philip's Church for colored 
people, Its value is given as Sl.Oiin and Rectory SiOd. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 201 

is now nearly 5,000. To-day the Episcopal Church has 
about 600,000 communicants, and a Church membership of 
more than 2,000,000. The proportion of communicants to 
the population twenty-five years ago was one in every 225 ; 
today there is one communicant for every 103 of the popula- 
tion. Or perhaps a more interesting statement will be to 
state that in 1820, the year in which Bishop Pierce was born, 
the proportion of communicants to the population was 1 in 
416. To-day, as already stated, there is one communicant 
for every 103 of the population. In 1850, when Bishop 
Pierce was just beginning his ministry, the population of 
the United States was 23,847,884 and there were only 79,987 
communicants in the Episcopal Church. To-day the State 
of Xew York alone, with only 5,997,853 population, has 240,- 
000 communicants. These are remarkable figures and it is 
not surprising that they attract attention. The Roman 
Catholic News said recently: "The gain of the Episcopalians 
in this country, steady, onward, undeniable and that at the 
exi^ense of the denominations called evangelical, is one of the 
remarkable characteristics of our times." The New York 
Evening Post and Public Opinion have devoted much space 
to the consideration of this growth, the latter remarking: 
"The general growth of the Episcopal Church far exceeds, 
proportionately, that of the population at large, or of any 
other religious section of it in particular. Tt looks like the 
'Church of the future.' " 

All this remarkable growth and advance the Bishop of 
Arkansas has witnessed. To-day he sees that there is not a 
State or Territory which is not under the pastoral care of a 
Bishop, many of the States having several Dioceses, each with 
its Bishop at its head. To-day he realizes and thanks God 
for it, that the quiet, persistent loyalty to the truth as this 
Church has received the same, the missionary zeal and enter- 
prise, the practical work enlisting so largely the labors and 
co-operation of the laity, the far-reaching influence on the 
religious thought of the day, the proposal of terms for Chris- 
tian unity, the multiplying of services and the more frequent 
communions, all manifest the inner and outward UTowth of 



202 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

the Church of which he is an honored Bishop, and demon- 
strate the reality and high purpose of her mission. 

W. J. M. 

A. D. 1899. As the ''Journal of the Twenty-seventh 
Annual Council of the Diocese of Arkansas^ 1899/' relates 
in detail the last Diocesan work of the lamented Bishop while 
on earth, it is transferred to these pages intact : 

BISHOP'S ADDRESS. 

Dear Brethren of the Clergy and of the Laity: 

Almighty God has spared me to meet you once more in 
Council, and it is with unusual peace of mind and freedom 
from care, that I welcome you to your seats in this, the 
Twenty-seventh Annual Session of this body. For I now 
know, so far as we are able to see the future, and estimate the 
probabilities thereof, that in case I meet you here no more, 
there will be one who has already won your confidence and 
taken from my shoulders a large portion of the burden, to 
assume the remainder of it when I lay that dowm, or am 
unable to bear it. Until that time I have the satisfaction of 
feeling that peace has been restored to the Diocese and left 
it free, and, as I trust, resolved to work for Christ and His 
one holy Catholic and Apostolic Cliurch, which is His Body 
mystical, as it has never yet worked in its long years of 
struggles, sometimes severe struggles, for existence. To one 
and all, I say, let bygones be bygones indeed, and let us hope- 
fully look forward to and pray and work for a grand and a 
glorious future for the Church in Arkansas. 

In reviewing the events of the past conciliar Diocesan 
year, I find the most important, of course, to be the consecra- 
tion of our beloved Coadjutor-Bishop. Of that and of his Avork 
since his consecration I need say little, for you are all fully 
informed on that subject. I add merely tliis: Much good 
seed has been sown and some of it in wholly new ground, and 
even now first fruits by no means scant have been gathered, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 203 

and the promised full harvest in Hue time is hopefully and 
joyfully anticipated in a not remote hereafter. 

The number of Clerical changes in the Diocese during 
the past year has been unusually large. I have given letters 
dimissory as follows : 

The Rev. John Gass, transferring him to the Diocese of 
Georgia. 

The Rev. E. J. P. B. Williams, transferring him to the 
Diocese of Springfield, 111. 

Rev. W. T. Allen, transferring him to the Diocese of 
West Missouri. 

The Rev. Douglas I. Hobbs, transferring him to the 
Diocese of Nebraska. 

I have accepted letters dimissory presented by the Rev. 
W. D. Buckner, from the Diocese of Southern Virginia ; the 
Rev. Caleb B. K. Weed^ from the Diocese of Newark, N. J. ; 
the Rev. R. W. Rhames, from the Diocese of Missouri. 

The Rev. George Gordon Smeade has resigned the Rec- 
torship of Trinity Church, Pine Bluff, and accepted the Rec- 
torship of Christ Church, Little Rock. The Rev. W. D. 
Buckner has succeeded to the vacancy at Pine Bluff. The 
Rev. William Cross resigned the Rectorship of St. Luke's 
Church, Hot Springs ; was chaplain for some months in the 
United States army, and is now out of the State, but still 
Canonically resident in the Diocese of Arkansas. The Rev. 
G. W. Flowers has recently resigned the Rectorship of 
Trinity Church, Van Buren, and is beyond the bounds of this 
Diocese at present, though Canonically resident here. The 
Rev. Mr. Weed has become Rector of St. Paul's Church, 
Batesville. The Rev. Mr. Rhames has become Rector of 
St. Paul's Church, Newport. The Rev. W. G. Coote, of the 
Diocese of Kansas, is officiating at St. Luke's Church, Hot 
Springs, and I have hopes of his becoming the Rector of that 
important parish. The Rev. I. M. Merlinjones, of the Dio- 
cese of Los Angeles, Cal., is officiating at St. Agnes's Church, 
Morrilton, very acceptably. The Rev. P. P. Boland, of the 
Diocese of Mississippi, is officiating at the parish of St. 
Johnson's, Fort Smith. Trinitv, Van Buren; St. Andrew's, 



204 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Marianna ; The Church of the Good Shepherd, Forrest City, 
and the mission points vacated by the removal of the Kev. Mr. 
Williams, are still without stated clerical services. But I 
feel assured that the most important of these vacancies will 
be soon filled. I do not si^eak of a vacancy at Trinity Cathe- 
dral, because no absolute vacancy can occur there as long as 
the Bishop is in residence, though additional workers are 
needed, and will, I hope, be soon secured. 

I consecrated the beautiful new St. John's Church, at 
Helena, on Septuagesima Sunday last. Further particulars 
concerning this consecration will be found in the abstract of 
my journal under the date of January 29, 1899. On the 
22d day of May, 1898, I laid the corner stone of the new St. 
John's Church, at Fort Smith. When I saw this fine stone 
edifice in December last, the workmen were finishing off the 
interior. Whether it was made ready for Easter services, as 
was then intended, I have not been informed. As there is 
on the building some debt, though not a large one, considering 
its beauty and substantial character, it may not be ready for 
consecration very soon. 

Great progress has been made in paying off Church debts 
during the year. A grand Easter offering very largely re- 
duced that of Christ Church, Little Kock. That of St.^ Luke's 
Church, Hot Springs, has been much cut do^vn. The debt 
on St. Andrew's Church Rectory, at Marianna, is being 
steadily lessened. A mere fragment is left of the debt once 
resting on the Deanery of Trinity Cathedral. Except the 
five mentioned, I believe none of the parishes of Arkansas are 
encumbored with debt. Few, if any, of the Dioceses of the 
American Church can show a better record than Arkansas in 
this respect. 

Spiritually, I have reason to believe the Diocese has 
advanced no little during the past twelve months. This is 
my conviction, though the small number of confirmations may 
seem to indicate the contrary. The past year has been, to a 
great degree, a broken one. ]\ren's minds have been deeply 
stirred by discords — discords international, political, and 
ecclesiastical — both in our countrv and in other lands. But 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 205 

the grace of God has heeii, and is,, bringing harmony out of 
discord. That it has so far prevailed under circumstances 
so opposing and obstructive shows a decided advancement in 
the Spiritual life of the world, the nation, and the Church 
of Grod. I look for much greater and much richer fruits in 
the more peaceful years to conie. 

Of the missionary work in the Diocese and in the world 
I shall say nothing here. I leave that to our dear Bishop- 
Coadjutor, and to others. They will tell vou more fully than 
I am pre])arcd to do, what has been done, what needs to be 
done, what can be done, and what is required of all of us in 
order to accomplish it. And may the Spirit Divine stir up 
every soul to perform its duty to God and to man. 

On the Festival of the Annunciation of the Blessed Vir- 
gin Mary the Rev. Caleb B. K. Weed, Deacon, was ordered 
Priest by the I\t. Rev. Dr. Starkey, in Grace Church, Orange, 
N. J. T mention the fact as certified to me by the Bishop of 
Newark, because he, in this case, sim])ly acted instead of my- 
self, and at my written request. This ordination will be re- 
ported by Arkansas at the next session of the General Conven- 
tion, as a matter of course. 

As nothing further occurs to me which seems to require 
saying in this connection on the present occasion, I here add 
an abstract of my Journal for the year forever ended, that 
you may, in some small part, see what your Bishop has been 
officially doing during the past twelve months : 

May 8, Sunday. The fourth after Easter. At 11 a. m. 
in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, Dean Hobbs said morning 
prayer ; the Rev. A. W. Pierce read the lessons ; I said the 
Ante-Communion ; the Rev. J. J. Vaulx reading the Epistle. 
The Rev. R. S. James, D. D., preached, and T closed the ser- 
vice. At 4 p. m. I attended a funeral in Trinity Cathedral. 

May 15, Sunday: The fifth after Easter. At 11 a. m. 
in Woodmen's Hall, Baring Cross, after a special service, said 
by Mr. J. Huntley, I baptized two children, made a brief 
address and preached. 

Mav 19, Thursdav: Ascension Da v. AtlOt.^Oa. m. 



206 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

ir St. John's Cliurcli, Fort Smith, I jji-eached and received 
the Holy Communion. 

May 22, Sunday: After Ascension. At 11 a. m. in 
St. John's Church, Fort Smith, I preached, confirmed one 
person (1 female), and made an address. At 4 p. m. I made 
an address and laid the corner stone of the new St. John's 
Church, assisted by the Rev. W. T. Allen, the Rector, and 
niembers of the Masonic Lodge. 

May 25, Wednesday: I this day gave my Canonical 
consent to the consecration of the Venerable William Mont- 
gomery Brown to be Bishop-Coadjutor of the Diocese of Ar- 
kansas. At 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I 
confirmed three persons (2 males, 1 female) and addressed 
the class. These candidates were presented by the Rev. A. 
W. Pierce, and are registered as parishioners of the Church 
of the Redeemer, iSTashville. Ark. 

May 29, Sunday: Whitsunday. At 11 a. m. in Trinity 
Cathedral, Little Rock, the Rev. A. W. Pierce said the Lit- 
any ; I said the Communion ofiice ; Dean Ilobbs read the 
Epistle and preached, and I celebrated the Holy Eucharist, 
assisted by the Rev. A. W. Pierce. 

June 5, Sunday: Trinity Sunday. At 11 a. m. in 
Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, Dean Hobbs said morning 
prayer, read the Epistle, preached, and assisted me. T cele- 
brated the Holy Eucharist. 

June 12, Sunday: The first after Trinity. At 11 a. m. 
1 assisted in saying morning services in Trinitv Cathedral, 
Little Rock. 

June 14, Tuesday: I this day gave to the Rev. John 
Gass letters dimissory, transferring him to the Diocese of 
Georgia. 

June 19, Sunday: The second after Trinity. At 10:30 
a. m. in Woodmen's Hall, Baring Cross (St. Barnabas's Mis- 
sion), I preached, confirmed two persons (1 male, 1 fenuile), 
and addressed the class. 

June 24, Friday: Nativity of St. John the Baptist. 
At 1 1 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I received the 
Holy Connuunion. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 207 

June 26, Sunday: The third after Trinity. At 11 
a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I assisted in the 
service and received the Holy Communion. The Rev. 
Willard H. Roots preached, and the Rev. A. W. Pierce was 
celebrant. 

June 29, Wednesday: St. Peter's Day. In St. Paul's 
Church, ]^^ewport, at 8 :30 p. m., I joined in holy matrimony 
Thomas Jackson Gregg and Miss Lucy Lester Watson. 

July 3, Sunday: The fourth after Trinity. At 11 
a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, the Rev. W. H. Roots 
said morning prayer, Bishop Brown read the lessons, I said 
the Communion office, Bishop Brown read the Gospel, and 
Ihe Rev. Mr. Roots the Epistle. Bishop Brown preached 
and I celebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Bishop. 

July 10, Sunday: The fifth after Trinity.' At 11 a. m. 
in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, T assisted in saying the 
mxOrning service. 

July 17, Sunday: The, sixth after Trinity. At 11 a. m. 
in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I assisted at the morning- 
service, and received the Holy Communion. 

July 20, Wednesday : The Diocesan Board of Missions, 
At 5 p. m. Bishop Brown was present, and at my request 
presided. 

July 24, Sunday: The seventh after Trinity. My 
health did not allow me to attend services. 

July 31, Sunday: The eighth after Trinity. Crippled 
up by rhemuatism and unable to attend services. 

August 7, Sunday : The ninth after Trinity. At 1 1 
a. m. in St. Peter's Church, Columbia, Tenn., I preached and 
received the Holy Communion. 

August 14, Sunday : The tenth after Trinity. Too un- 
well to attend services. 

August 21, Sunday: The eleventh after Trinity. At 
11a. m. in St. Peter's Church, Columbia, Tenn., I i^reached. 

August 28, Sunday: The twelfth after Trinity. At 
11a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, T received the 
Holy Communion. 

September 4, Sunday : The thirteenth after Trinity. 



208 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

At 11 a. m. I received the Holj Communion in the Cathedral, 
Little Rock. 

September 11, Smiday. The fourteenth after Trinity. 
At 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I assisted in 
saying morning service and received the Holy Communion. 
The Bishop said the rest of the service, ^^reached and cele- 
brated the Holy Eucharist. 

September 18, Sunday: The fifteenth after Trinity, 
At 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I received the 
Holy Communion. The Rev. A. W. Pierce ofiiciated. 

September 19, Monday: I this day gave letters dimis- 
sory to the Rev. Edward J. P. B. Williams, transferring him 
to the Diocese of Springfield, 111. 

September 25, Sunday: The sixteenth after Trinity. At 
11 a. m. in Trinity C^athedral, Little Rock, I received the 
Lloly Communion. The Rev. A. W. Pierce ofiiciated. 

October 2, Sunday: The seventeenth after Trinity. 
Owing to heavy rains and my rheumatism, I Avas housed all 
day. 

October 6, Thursday : At the House of Bishops, Gen- 
eral Convention, Washington City, D. C, all day. 

October 7, Friday: At the House of Bishops all day. 

October 8, Saturday: At the House of Bishops all 
morning. 

October 0, Sunday: The eighteenth after Trinity. At 
1 1 a. m. I attended service in the Church of the Epiphany, 
Washington, D. C. 

October 10, Monday: The House of Bishops. 

October 11, Tuesday: House of Bishops and the Board 
of Missions. 

October 13, Thursday: House of Bishops. 

October 14, Friday: House of Bishops. 

October If), Sunday: The nineteenth after Trinity. At 
10:4.') a. m. T preached in Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, 
N. ^ . At 7 :.'')0 ]). m. I preached again. 

October 23, Sunday: The twentieth after Trinity. 
Spent in the coimtry. tliree miles from Metuchen, X. T., want 



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of conveyance, added to bitter cold weather, prevented my 
attending services. 

October 25, Tuesday: At the House of Bishops again. 

October 30, Sunday : The twenty-first after Trinity. 
The weather too cold for me to attend services in the Cathe- 
dral. 

November 6, Sunday : The twenty-second after Trinity. 
At 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Kock, I celebrated 
the Holy Eucharist. 

iSTovember 13, Sunday: The twenty-third after Trinity. 
At 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I read the 
pastoral letters of the House of Bishops. 

November 20, Sunday: Xext before Advent. At 11 a. m. 
in Trinity Cathedral, Little Bock, I received the Holy 
Communion. 

November 23, Wednesday : I this day accepted the 
letters dimissory presented by the Bev. W. I). Buckner, from 
the Diocese of Southern Virginia. 

November 24, Thursday : National Thanksgiving. The 
cold weather forbade my attending services. 

November 27, Sunday : The first in Advent. Again 
my state of health and the cold weather prevented me from 
attending services. 

December 4, Sunday : The second in Advent. A 
snowstorm last night kept me housed all day, the furnace in 
the Cathedral not being in working order. 

December 11, Sunday: The third in Advent. At 11 
a. m. in St. Baul's Church, Fayetteville, I preached and cele- 
brated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Bector, the Bev. J. 
J. Vaulx. At 7 :30 I preached and confirmed two persons 
(2 males), and addressed the class. These confirmations 
were administered at the request of Bishop Brown. 

December IS, Sunday: The fourth in Advent. At 
11 a. m. in St. John's Church, Fort Smith, I preached, con- 
firmed six persons (5 males, 1 female), addressed the class 
and celebrated the Holy Eucharist. 

December 25, Sunday: Christmas Day. At 11 a. m. 



210 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I celebrated the Holy Eu- 
charist, assisted by Dean Hobbs. 

January 1, Sunday: The Circumcision. At 11 a. m. 
in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I receiyed the Holy Com- 
munion. 

January S, Sunday: The first after Epiphany. I 
preached in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, at the morning- 
service. 

January 14-, Saturday: At 3 p. m. in Trinity Cathe- 
dral, Little Rock, I otHciated at a funeral assisted by Dean 
Hobbs. 

January 15, Sunday: The second after Epiphany. At 
11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I celebrated the 
Holy Eucharist, assisted by Dean Hobbs. 

January 22, Sunday: The third after Epiphany. I 
attended mornipg service in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. 

January 25, Wednesday: St. Paul's Day. The an- 
niversary of my consecration to the Episcopate. I celebrated 
the Holy Eucharist in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, at 10 
a. m. The Venerable Dr. Webber was gospeler and preached. 
Dean Hobbs was epistoler. 

January 29, Sunday: Septuagesima. At 11 a. m. I 
consecrated to the service and worship of Almighty God the 
substantial and beautiful new St. John's Church, at Llelena. 
Tn this service I had the pleasure and honor of being assisted 
by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, and the 
Rt. Rev. Dr. Brown, Bishop-Coadjutor of Arkansas. Judge 
Thweatt read the instrument of donation and Bishop Brown 
read the sentence of consecration. Bishop Dudley preached 
the sermon. I said the Communion office, the Bishop of 
Kentucky being gospeler, and Bishop Brown being epistoler. 
I celebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by Bishop Dudley 
and Bishop Brown. 

January 30, Monday : T conducted the examination of 
the Rev. Caleb B. K. Weed, Deacon, for the Priesthood, aided 
by the Rev. A. W. Pierce, and the Rev. William Cross. The 
Rev. Mr. Weed has recenty presented letters dimissory from 
the Diocese of Xewark, X. J. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 211 

February 4 : I this day gave letters dimissory to the 
Rev. W. T. Allen, transferring him to the Diocese of West 
Missouri. I was very reluctant to part with so able and 
faithful a Priest. 

February 5, Sunday: Sexagesinui. The ground being 
a glare of ice and the temperature much below the freezing- 
point, I necessarily remained at home. 

February 12, Sunday. Quinquagesima. The ther- 
mometer this morning was 12^ degrees below zero, the coldest 
weather 1 have known in Arkansas. I could not attend the 
services. 

February 15, Wednesday: Ash Wednesday. Crippled 
up by rheumatism and at home all day. 

February ID, Sunday: The first in Lent. Attended 
morning service, and received the Holy Communion. 

February 26, Sunday: The second in Lent. Attended 
morning services in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. 

March 5, Sunday: The third in Lent. I preached 
and received the Holy Communion in St. Peter's Church, 
Columbia, Tenn., at the morning service. 

March 10, Friday: In St. Peter's Church, Columl)ia, 
Tenn., I preached at the night service. 

March 12, Sunday : The fourth in Lent. In the morn- 
ing I ba])tized an infant and preached in St. Peter's Church, 
Columbia, Tenn. 

March 10, Thursday: I confirmed in my parlor one 
person (1 female), registered for Trinity Cathedral, Little 
Rock. 

March 19, Sunday: The fifth in Lent. At 11 a. m. 
in St. Luke's Church, Hot Springs, Ark., I preached and 
celebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Rev. W. G. 
Coote, minister in charge. At 7 :30 p. m. I preached again, 
confirmed seven persons (2 males, 5 females), and addressed 
the class. 

March 26, Sunday: T^ext before Easter. At 11 a. m. 
in Christ Church, Little Rock, the Rev. G. G. Smeade, Rec- 
tor, said the Ante-Communion. I preached, confirmed nine 
persons (2 males, 7 females), addressed the class, and cele- 



212 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

brated the Holy Eucharist. At 4 p. m. I assisted in saying 
evening- service in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. 

J\iarcli 30, Thursday : I this day accepted the letters 
dimissory presented by the Rev. R. W. Rhames, from the 
Diocese of Missouri, and sent Canonical notice of said accept- 
ance. At 4 p. m. I attended services in Trinity Cathedral. 

March 31, Friday: Good Friday. I attended morn- 
ine- service in Trinity Cathedral. 

April 2, Sunday: Easter Day. At 11 a. m. I cele- 
brated the Holy Eucharist in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, 
assisted by Dean Hobbs, and the Rev. A. W. Pierce. At 4 
p. m. I preached, confirmed eight persons (2 males, 6 
females), and addressed the class. 

April 6, Thursday: At 5 p. m. I officiated at a funeral 
in Little Rock. 

April 9, Sunday: The first after Easter. At 11 a. m. 
in St. John's Church, Helena, I preached, confirmed fifteen 
persons (5 males, 10 females), addressed the class, and cele- 
brated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by Dean Lockwood. At 
8 p. m. I assisted in saying evening service and preached in 
St. Andrew's Church, Marianna. 

April 10, Monday: At S p. m. I said the evening service 
and ]u-eached in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Forrest 
City. 

April 14, Friday: This day I accepted the resignation 
of tlie Rev. Douglas I. Hobbs as Dean of Trinity Cathedral, 
the same to take effect on the 1st day of May, 1899. 

April 10, Sunday: The second after Easter. At 11 a. m. 
in Trinity Church, Pine Blufi", I preached, confirmed 
eleven persons fG males, 5 females), addressed the class, and 
celebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Rector, the 
Rev. W. D. Buckner. At niglit I preached again. 

April 23, Sunday: The third after Easter. I assisted 
at morniug service in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. 

A])ril 30, Sunday: TJie fourth after Easter. At 11. 
a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I celebrated the Holy 
Eucharist. At 4 p. m. T said evening prayer and lectured. 

May 1, Alonday: T this day gave letters dimissory to 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 213 

the Rev. Douglas I. Ilobbs, transferring him to the Diocese 
of jS^ebraska. 

SUMMARY. 

Sermons preached 24 

Addresses made 17 

Eucharists celebrated 17 

Number confirmed 65 

Ordinations, Priest 1 

Letters Dimissorj accepted 3 

Letters Dimissory given -1 

Churches consecrated 1 

C^orner stones laid 1 

Marriages 1 

Baptisms (infants) 3 

Funerals 2 

Miles traveled 7,145 

The marriages, baptisms, and funerals referred to here 
are registered in the parishes Avhere they took place, and will 
be included in their reports. 

CO^v^FIRMATIONS. 

For St. John's Church, Helena 15 

For Trinity Church, Pine Bluif 11 

For Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock 

For Christ Church, Little Rock 9 

For St. John's Church, Fort Smith 7 

For St. Luke's Church, Hot Springs 7 

For Church of the Redeemer, Xashville 3 

For St. Paul's Church, Fayetteville 2 

For St. Barnabas',? Mission, Baring Cross 2 



65 

The Bishop-Coadjutor will report the confirmations 
made bv him. 



214 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

COLLECTIONS FOR THE CPIURCH DEBT AT 

DARDAXELLE. 

Hot Springs $22.00 

Christ Church, Little Rock 17.12 

Pine Bluff 16.00 

Trinity Cathedral 3.26 

Helena 6.50 

Marianna 2.50 

Forrest City 2.11 

$69.4fy 

Before closing, I have one suggestion to make. I think 
that we have all found that in some few points our excellent 
Code of Canons are too indefinite, and, it may be, in some 
other points defective. I think it would be wise to create a 
small committee to carefully examine the matter and report 
to the next Annual Council what changes are absolutely 
required. The committee should be small — and it should 
invite the clergy and laity of this Diocese to express their 
views to them concerning what they may deem necessary 
changes. \ 

With this suggestion, I leave you to prosecute the work 
before you. May the Holy Ghost be with you to guide you 
in all of your proceedings, and in all of your utterances. 

HENRY NILES PIERCE, 

Bishop of Arlcansas. 



ABSTRACT OF JOURNAL BISHOP PIERCE. 

May 2, 1809. — I presided at a meeting of the Board of 
Missions at Bishop Brown's. We got through about mid- 
night. 

May 3. — I said the Communion office. Bishop Brown 
reading the Gospel, and ]\Ir. Vaulx the Epistle. I read my 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 215 

annual address, and assisted by Bishop Brown, celebrated the 
Holy Eucharist. Then called the Council to order and 
presided all day. 

May 4. — Presided in the Council till 1-J :30 p. m., when 
the Council adjourned sine die. 

May 7. — I celebrated the Holy Eucharist at Trinity 
Cathedral. 

May 11. — Ascension Day. Attended celebration in the 
Cathedral and received the Holy Communion. 

May 14. — I said morning jorayer in the Cathedral and 
received. At 4 p. m. 1 closed the services. 

May 21. — Mr. Coote said the services and I celebrated 
the Holy Communion at St. Luke's, Hot Springs, and 
jjreached both morning and night. 

May 28. — Preached a sermon and received the Holy 
Communion at the Cathedral and closed the afternoon service. 

J une 4. — Attended service at St. Peter's Church, Colum- 
bia, Tenn., and at night preached the baccalaureate sermon. 

June 7. — Commencement exercises at the Institute, Co- 
lumbia, Tenn. I made an address and delivered the diplomas 
and certificates. 

June 11. — At 11 a. m., at St. Peter's Church, Columbia, 
Tenn., I preached the sermon and received the Holy Com- 
munion. 

June IS. — At 11 a. m., in the Cathedral, I said morn- 
ing prayer and received the Holy Communion. At evening 
prayer I closed the service. 

June 21. — At 9 a. m. I presided at a meeting of the 
Board of Missions, held at tlie (.Uipital Hotel. 

June 24. — St. John Baptist Hay. I attended celebra- 
tion at the Cathedral and received the Holy Communion. 

June 25. — I said morning prayer at Trinity Cathedral 
and received the Holy Communion. At evening prayer I 
closed the service. 

t 

June 27. — Wrote llev. J. X. Perkins, chairman Church 
Building Fund Committee, Xew York, and inclosed a draft 
for $69.40 for Dardanolle Church debt, leaving a balance of 
$G0.27. 



216 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

June 29. — St. Peter's Day. Tleceived the Holy Com- 
ijiunion in the CathedraL 

I this day accepted letters diniissory from the Diocese of 
Kentucky, and sent canonical notice of acceptance of Rev. 
W. G. Coote. Bishop Brown called and I handed over to 
him the statement concerning the Dardanelle Church debt, 
and have his promise to pay the balance, $60.27, out of funds 
collected by him from my field. 

June 30.- — At 2:15 p. m., at Trinity Cathedral, Rev, 
A. W. Pierce presented and I confirmed three persons and 
made a short address. 

July 2. — At 11 a. m., at the Cathedral, I preached and 
received the Holy Communion. In the afternoon I began a 
sermon on the "Catholic Oranda."' At 5 p. m. I closed the 
Choral Evensong. 

July 9. — xVt 1 1 a. m. I said morning prayer and received 
the Holy Communion. At Evensong I closed the service. 

July 12. — At 8 p. m. I j^reached in St. John's Church, 
Helena, ''The Spirit and the Bride Say Come." Confirmed 
eighteen persons and addressed the class. 

July 16. — At 11 a. m., in the Cathedral, I said the 
Bishop's part in the celebration and received the Holy Com- 
munion. 

July 19. — The Standing Committee of the Diocese met 
in my study at 10 a. m., I being present at their request. 

July 23. — In the Cathedral, at 11 a. ni., I took the 
Bishop's part in the celebration and received the Holy Com- 
munion, after which Rev. A. W. Pierce baptized William 
Starr Mitchell,'^ of Little Rock, and I confirmed him. At 
5 ]i. m. I closed the Choral Evensong with benediction. 

July 24. — I gave my Canonical consent to the conse- 
cration of Rev. Joseph Marshall Erancis, Bishop-elect of 
Tjidiana. 

July 30. — At n a. m., in the Cathedral, I said the 
Bishop's ])art and received. In the evening I finished writ- 
ing sermon on the "Catholic Oranda." 



*Thi« was the Bishop's last confirmation. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 217 

August 1. — At 9:10 I took the train for Fayetteville via 
Van Bureii. Rev. J. J. Vaulx met riic at the ears at Fayette- 
ville and I became his guest. 

August 6. — At 11 a. m., in St. Paul's Church, Fayette- 
ville, I preached the ''Catholic Oranda ;" said the Bishop's 
part in the celebration and received the Holy Communion. 
Kev. J. J. Vaulx celebrated. 

The next note found in the Bishop's diary is that on 
August 8 Mr. Vaulx started for Colorado Springs at S a. m. 

The last entry, August 9, is of letters written to Dr. 
James at Eureka Springs, to his wife at Little Rock, and to 
G. W. Millard at Poughkeepsie, J^. Y., which was the last 
letter written by him so far as known. 

On the next day he was seized with the illness which 
finally resulted in death. Having gone to Fayetteville for 
the express purpose of relieving ]\Ir. Vaulx so that he might 
have a month's vacation, the Bishop, notwithstanding his ill- 
ness, felt reluctant to omit a service, and on Sunday, August 
13, he officiated for the last time l)y a celebration of the Holy 
Connnunion, without sermon, at St. Paul's, Favetteville. 



A. D. 1899. At Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, on 
Wednesday, May 3, 1899, at 11 o'clock a. m. tlie foregoing 
address was read by Bishop Pierce before the members of the 
Twenty-seventh Annual Council of the Diocese of Arkansas, 
which adjourned sine die on May 5. Hoping and trusting 
that, propped by the vigorous strength of the youthful Co- 
adjutor, and relieved of care that had burdened his infirm 
shoulders, his clergy parted from him, predicting a long sea- 
son of repose before he should be called to buckle on his armor 
to meet the conqueror Death. But this was not to be. On 
the 5th day of September of the same year, after the short 
interval of four months, he was summoned to "the eternal 



218 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Sabbath of his rest." The morning issue of the Arkansas 
Gazette, of the 6th, carried a shock to the hearts of its readers 
in the announcement of his death, which occurred at Fayette- 
ville, Ark., at 10 a, m. the previous day. Bishop Pierce died 
there at the residence of Rev. J. J. Vaulx, Rector of St. 
Paul's Church at that place. For many years he had been 
accustomed to spend a three weeks' vacation with this stead- 
fast friend and favorite brother in Christ. On this occasion 
he was there to conduct the services of the Church, while the 
Rector, who had been ill, went to the mountains of Colorado 
for some rest. When it became evident that the Bishop's 
illness would be fatal, his family was summoned to his bed- 
side. His wife was ill and could not leave her bed, and Mrs. 
Lyman was in Paris, France, but his son. Rev. Wallace 
Pierce, and his daughter, Mrs. W. C. Stevens, were with him 
to the end, which occurred September 5, and accompanied the 
remains to his late residence in Little Rock. Rev. J. J. Yaulx 
and wife also were in the number of this funeral pilgrimage. 
From the Southern Churchman, of September 14, 1899, 
the account of his burial is reprinted : 

The funeral services were celebrated at Trinity Cathe- 
dral, Little Rock, Thursday, the 7th instant, and according to 
compact between father and son, the Rev. A. Wallace Pierce 
officiated. The services were very solemn and deeply im- 
pressive, as well as instructive to those who are unfamiliar 
with the best usages of the Church. 

At 10 o'clock the Holy Eucharist was celebrated, the Rev. 
Mr. Pierce, celebrant, the Rev. J. J. Yaulx and the Rev. D. B. 
Ramsay (two oldest priests in point of residence, and bosom 
friends of the Bishop) being Gospeler and Epistler, respec- 
tively. Nearly all the clergy of the Diocese, together with 
the Rt. Rev. Drs. Brown, Arkansas; Tuttle, Missouri, and 
Garrett, Dallas, wei-c present. On the casket were six candles 
lighted. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 219 

At 5 o'clock, on account of the heat, the regular burial 
service was said. At this service all the clergy, and also the 
choir, were robed. The large building was crowded to its 
utmost capacity, the people thus bearing silently their testi- 
mony of love to their beloved Bishop, venerable in years, patri- 
archal in appearance, and venerated by hundreds and thous- 
ands of hearts throughout the State of Arkansas, where he 
gave the best years of his life in the service of the Master and 
humanity. 

At a meeting of the clergy of the Diocese of Arkansas, 
held at Little Rock on the 7th instant, the following minute 
was unanimously adopted : 

'^To-day the clergy of the Diocese, here assembled, bear 
witness to their grief at the death of our beloved Diocesan, 
the Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., LL. D. 

"As our chief in holy orders his scholarship and spiritu- 
ality were constant inspiration and guide. As our father in 
God he was essentially judicial-minded, in no case ever listen- 
ing to an ex parte statement, no matter from whatever source 
it came. 

"His sympatliy always responded to our experience of 
life. He listened with a patient ear to the story of all our 
trials and sorrows, and left the narrator cheered and com- 
forted. 

"His mind was particularly that of an instructor, and it 
was a liberal education to listen to and appropriate his views 
on any subject. 

"His hospitality was limited only by the circumstances 
of his habitation. 

"His works were manifold and will live after him. They 
were beset with the difficulties and hardships of an early Epis- 
copate — successes and disappointments which are matters of 
history, and will be discussed elsewhere. 

"These are some of the prominent characteristics of the 
Bishop and the man whioli endear his memory, sanctify his 



220 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

intliienee, and impress the nobility of Bishop Pierce upon ns. 

''While we mourn our loss on earth, we are not unmind- 
ful of the admonition 'not to sorrow as men without hope for 
those who die in the Lord.' Our Bishop's clear thought, 
firm faith, and childlike trust have been a blessing from our 
Lord and Master. 

"J. J. VAULX, 
"D. B. KAMSAY, 
"C. H. LOCKWOOD, 
• "R. W. RHAMES." 

The Bishops' testimonial to their departed brother is as 
follows : 

"The brethren of the House of Bishops gathered at the 
funeral of the late Bishop of Arkansas lay his sacred body 
with the offices of honor and reverence belonging to a soldier 
brother, with deep and aifectionate sympathy extended to his 
family and friends, desire to leave on record this tribute to 
his memory. 

''The late Bishop of Arkansas was a man of unusual 
mental energy. Lie was a constant student, and delighted in 
keeping perpetually fresh the university attainments of his 
early years. He was a graduate of Brown, and also professor 
of higher mathematics there. 

"The young people of Little Rock know well how often 
they brought their mathematical problems and other puzzling 
questions to liini for solutions, always iinding a cordial wel- 
come and ready solution of their difficulties. 

"To the great force of natural ability the late Bishop 
united marked persistence of character, Avorking with un- 
abated courage towards the attainment of purpose. The 
building of the Cathedral illustrates these characteristics in 
an impressive manner. Almost single-handed he undertook 
the task of raising the necessary funds. The Cathedral was 
to express in the concrete certain ideals which were dear to 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 221 

the Bishop's mind, but hicked anv exeiiiplitication in the Dio- 
cese. The buihling- in which the hist soknnn rites liave just 
taken place over his remains stands as at once the monument 
and memorial of liis oai^nestness and C^atholicitv of mind and 
feeling. 

"As a man, his scholarship and superior ability gave liim 
influence and authority ; as a Bishop, he ruled his large and 
dithcult held with courage and constancy. Everyone knew 
his views. PTis trumpet gave no uncertain sound. 

"Consecrated missionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian 
Territory January 25, 1870, and dying at Fayetteville, Ark., 
September 5, 1899, while supplying the services of a faithful 
pastor, wdio was taking a little time of needed rest, the lit. 
Rev. Henry JSTiles Pierce, D. D., LL. D., was for nearly 
thirty years a leader of missionary work in one of the most 
eminently missionary regions of our domestic field. Obstacles 
were plentiful. Resources and help were meagre. But loy- 
alty to the Church and his Master kept him unyieldingly 
steadfast t^ his aim of standing in his lot and doing duty to 
the end. 

"His counsel given in the House of Bishops was of great 
worth to his brethren, as was his leadership in the field of 
value to the Church at large. The Church militant mourns 
his loss, while grateful to the loving mercy of Almighty God 
that his faithful servant was spared to do service to the last 
of his days and up to the seventy-ninth year of his earthly life. 

"DAN^ S. TUTTLE, 

"Bishop of Missouri 
"ALEXA^^DER C. GARRETT, 

"BisJiop of Dallas. 
"WILLIA^r :\I. BROWN, 

"BisJioj) of Arl'dii'^dS." 



222 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

TRIJ3UTE TO BISHOP PIERCE 

FROM REV. T. B. LEE, RECTOR OF ST. DAVId's CHURCH, 
AUSTIN, TEXAS. 

Rev. T. B. Lee^ Rector of St. David's Churchy xViistin, 
Texas, paid the following tribute to the late Bishop Pierce 
last Sunday : 

"T have kept the faith." Beloved, last Sunday I took 
these words for my text, not knowing then that a "Prince in 
Israel" was on the point of departure from sharing his Mas- 
ter's cross to the radiance of his Master's crown. Of no one 
could these words l)e more fittingly said, "I have fought a 
good fight ; I have finished my course ; I have kept the faith," 
than of Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., first Bishop of Arkansas. 
Nothing was nearer his heart than the Catholic faith. Some 
of you may remember his definition, given from this pulpit. 
"Catholic," according to the whole Church. That held from 
the beginning — everywhere — and by all as distinguished from 
the accretions which have gathered upon it, from the opinions 
of diiferent schools of thought. Bishop Pierce was so well 
known for his learning and his extraordinary gift of language, 
being a master in seven or more languages, that he was one 
of the several appointed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury 
to serve on a committee to confer with the Greek Church in 
regard to the disputed translation of a word in the Nicene 
creed, on which the eastern and western branches of the 
Church Catholic disagree. The Greeks say "from the 
Father through the Son," and we "from the Eather and the 
Son." Bishop Pierce held with the eastern Church. When 
the Bishop held the Rectorship of Christ Church, Little Rock, 
I was his assistant and chaplain, and part of the time was 
an inmate of his family. I knew him as intimately as one 
can know another, and w^e loved one the other as father and 
son. I was taken into his great heart, and revered his com- 
manding intellect and wide learning. Withal he was gentle 
as a child and his sympathies embraced all of God's creatures. 
He never felt it condescension to put himself on a level with 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 223 

the least of his flock. It was said of him by one leaving the 
Diocese, "Bishop, I will miss the great rock which you are 
to your people." This describes his character — a rock — im- 
movable — of firmness, of truth, of sincerity, of courage — and 
1 say without hesitation that on the bench of Bishops he had 
not a peer. Bishop, doctor, shepherd, friend, weighed in the 
balance over against the high ideal of Thine own faith, thou 
art not found wanting. Therefore, we thank God on his 
behalf "for the grace of God which was given him by Jesus 
Christ, that in everything he was enriched by Him, in all 
utterances, and in all knowledge," and may his strength be 
given us that w-e may so live through the days of this earthly 
life that we and all God's faithful ones may have our perfect 
consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in His etei'nal 
and everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. 



IK LOVING MEMOKY. 

KESOLUTIOi^S ON BISHOP PIERCERS DEATH BY THE LADIES OF 
THE CHURCH. 

[^Arlrinsos Democnit, Sei)tember 23.] 

At a joint meeting of the Woman's Guild, the Woman's 
Auxiliary and the Daughters of the King, held in Trinity 
Cathedral September 18, 1809, the following resolutions were 
passed : 

"Our beloved Bishop having entered into the Cliurch 
Expectant, therefore be it 

"Resolved, That our heartfelt sym})athy be extended 
his family in their deep sorrow. May God in His great mercy 
comfort them. 

"We of the Cathedral parish are indeed thankful that it 
has been our great privilege to see him often and to know 
him well. Those of us who have felt his dear, gentle hands 
on our heads and the words, "Defend, O Lord, this tliy chihl," 
from his lips, will as long as life lasts remember him with 
love and veneration. 



224 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

^''Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent his 
family and spread upon our books. 
[SiG^-ED.] "MRS. S. M. APPERSOiS^, 

"President Woman's Guild. 
''MRS. P. K. ROOTS, 
^"President Woman's Auxiliary. 
''MISS EMILY ROOTS, 
'^' Directress Daughters of the King." 



REV. THOMAS BOOTH LEE, M. A. 

A. D. 1861-1872. Per. Thomas Booth Lee, M. A., of 
Oxford, England, was born in Brynderwjn, Flintshire, 
England. The name Lee was originally spelled Legli, being 
Welsh, but was changed in spelling with the inheritance of 
some property. His mother was Miss Ann Uenett Booth, 
who, with her daughters, was heiress to a large property. At 
the time of her decease, a few years since, an English paper 
published the fact that in her youth she and a sister under- 
took the maintenance and education of forty poor children. 
Rev. Thomas Booth Lee was ordained Deacon in 1861, and 
two years later, 1863, Avas ordained Priest. In 1869 he was 
induced to come to this country and act as Chaplain to Bishop 
Quintard, on the return of the Bishop from England. (Meet- 
ing Bishop Quintard in England he was induced to come.) 
After attending the consecration of Bishop Pierce at Mobile, 
Ala., with Bishop Quintard, wlio was one of the consecrating 
Bishops, he accompanied the former to Little Rock, Ark., 
January, 1870, where he was induced to remain, and served 
the Bishop as assistant in the office of Rector of Christ Church. 
In the following year the Bishop resigned the office of Rector 
and Rev. Mr. Lee was elected to fill the vacancy. He was 
the incumbent Rector for nearly four years. On July 18, 




REV. THOMAS BOOTH LEE. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 225 

1872, he was married to ]Miss Ada Beall Cochrane. Her 
father, Richard Ellis Cochrane, lieutenant in the United 
States army, fell at the head of his company* at the battle of 
Resaca de la Palma. He was a descendant of the Cochrane 
family of England, and one of his maternal ancestors, Colonel 
Cooch, was a colonel in the French and Indian war. Another, 
the Rev. Evan Evans, was first Rector of Christ Church, Phil- 
adelphia. Mrs. Lee's mother was a Miss Beall, of Kentucky, 
whose family was from Viri>inia, her grandmother, a Miss 
Rector. The governors Rector and (Jonway, of Arkansas, 
Avere cousins germane. 



The treasurer's books of the Ladies' Aid Society at that 
time show a loan to the Building Association of $1,000, 
''which the Vestry appropriated at one time, but could not 
collect, as it was in Bishop Pierce's name, as trustee." 

At this time came the great calamity of the burning of 
the Church. Tlirough tlic kindness of Mr. Louis M. Samuel, 
who copied the account fr<^)m the files of the newspaper of that 
date for the annalist, a description is here subjoined: 

EPISCOPAL CHURCH BURNED. 

BATTLE OF TJIK ELEMENTS FIRE AND WATER LOSS ABOUT 

$10,000, INSURED FOR $5,000. 

(From the Daily Arkansas Gazette, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1873.) 

Sunday evening and night a continual storm of rain and 
wind, accompanied by lightning, prevailed, which increased 
to almost a tornado between 1 and 2 o'clock. About 1 o'clock, 
while the rain was falling in torrents, the alarm of fire was 
sounded at the Pulaski and Torrent engine houses, and in a 



*Acting Captain. 



226 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

very short time it was discovered that the Episcopal Church, 
on the corner of Scott and Fifth streets, was on fire. 

Owing to the storm, comparatively few persons turned 
out, but the fire laddies responded nobly, and were by far the 
largest portion of those present. 

Colonel Page, chief of the fire department, was promptly 
on the ground. The Torrent hand engine, with a good force 
of men, was the first at the fire, but owing to the small amount 
of hose, was unable to do any service, no cistern being nearer 
than Fourth and Main streets. The steam engine Cleburne 
threw the first water, of wliicli a limited supply was obtained 
at the corner of Scott and Third streets, two squares from the 
fire. Engineer Dale had steam up some time before men 
arrived to move the engine. Shortly after the Cleburne 
dropped the water a noble stream came from the hose of the 
Pulaski steamer, at the corner of Main and Fourth streets. 
Engineer Ives worked the engine handsomely, amidst the 
storm, about an hour, when the water gave out. 

The hook and ladder was pulled to the corner of Scott and 
Second streets, when the men gave out, and no one came to 
their assistance. The members who responded to the call 
Avere Bob Bruce, Bob Xewell, John Cowpland, Harry Thomas, 
and Geo. Wehr, who deserved to be set down as always ready. 

Shortly after the fire broke out a few men forced an 
entrance into the window of the churchy and removed the 
larger portion of the valuable furniture, which, however, was 
badly damaged by the rain. The organ was removed by Louis 
Bernays and Henry Brodkins, among the first on the grounds. 

At 1:20 tlio wliole tower was a mass of flames, burning 
like tinder, and the rain, which fell in volumes, seemed not 
to have the slightest eftect. 

At 1 :25 the bell, with a terrible crash, fell to the ground 
and two of the corner posts fell out. 

At 1 :45 the roof caught fire from the inside, and the 
front wall fell out like a crash of thunder. 

At 2 the whole building was a raging mass of flames, 
which no amount of water could subdue. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 227 

Policeman Wolf, who was on the night watch, was the 
first to see the fire, which was burning in the lower portion of 
the tower. He sounded the alarm and deserves credit for his 
watchfvilness and prompt action. 

After the roof was burned, the rain, in a great measure, 
subdued the fire, and at 9 o'clock yesterday morning the three 
standing walls and a few burned and charred timber were all 
that remained of what a few hours before was a handsome 
house of worship. 

The cause of the fire is a mystery, but the general opinion 
is that it was occasioned by lightning. Assistant Kector Lee 
knows of but two ways in which it could have been fired — by 
lightning, or that some man went to sleep in the tower with a 
lighted cigar or pipe. The loss is about $10,000, and the 
insurance $5,000; $2,500 in the Franklin, of Philadelphia; 
$2,500 in the Peoples, of Arkansas. 

There was to have been confirmation in the Church Sun- 
day evening, but the storm prevented the service. 

This Church was of brick, and erected in 1841, by Mr. 
Geo. S. Morrison. Bishop H. IST. Pierce is the Rector and 
Rev. T, B. Lee, assistanl, and the communicants number 
about 300. The lot on which the Church was erected was 
conveyed to Judge John Wassell, who laid out the lots, made 
the plans, and had the edifice built. The successive pastors 
were Rev. W. H. C. Yeager, Rev. Jas. Young, Rev. Wm. San- 
ders, Rev. A. r. Freeman. During the two years, commenc- 
ing September, 1870, Rev. E. S. Peake, a Federal chaplain, 
occupied the position. Then came Rev. P. G. Robert, fol- 
lowed by Rev. H. H. Morrell, and then the present occupants. 

The Vestry of the Church desires to express their thanks 
to the firemen and other gentlemen who so gallantly aided in 
rescuing from the flames numerous articles of furniture, 
which, but for their timely assistance and presence of mind, 
would have been destroyed. 

The Vestry also desires to state that a temporary place of 
worship will be provided in time for the services of next Sab- 
bath, notice of which will be duly given. 



228 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

EPISCOrAL CllUKOH. 

(From the Dally Arkansas Gazette, Thursday, Oct. 2, 1873.) 

The services Sunday will be held in the Opera House, on 
Main street^ at 11 o'clock in the morning, and 7:30 in the 
evening. Every member of the congregation is earnestly 
requested to attend. 

The Holy Communion will be celebrated at the Rectory, 
at the residence of Bishop Pierce, at 9 o'clock in the morning. 



At the time of the fire the old Church was scarcely large 
enough for the regular congregation. The plans for the 
second Church were accepted and the foundation laid during 
the incumbency of Rev. Mr. Lee. The members of the Vestry 
were Mr. Luke E. Barber, Mr. John Wassell, Judge Ringo, 
Mr. W, B. Wait, and others. The organist was Miss Mary 
E. Harrell. The quartette choir was composed of sopranos 
at successive times, Mrs. Helen Ames, Miss Edwards] the alto, 
Mrs. Wm. G. Whipple ; tenor. Judge W. I. Warwick ; bass, 
Colonel W. G. Whipple. The president of the Ladies' Aid 
Society at this time was Mrs. H. 1^. Pierce ; and Miss Ada 
Beall Cochrane, treasurer ; Miss Georgie Woodruff, secretary. 
The organist was Mrs. Kerr; the choir was composed of Miss 
Lily Wright and Miss Lillian Cantrell, sopranos ; Mrs. W. G. 
Whipple, alto; Major Smith, tenor, and Colonel W. G. 
Wlii])ple, basso. 

Eor four years the Rev. T. B. Lee administered the ser- 
vices of the Church in the Opera House and Chamber of C'Oni- 
merce. He was then transferred to the Diocese of IsTorthern 
Texas,' and became Rector of St. David's (^hurcli, at Austin, 
of which he now has charge. 

Eei\ Tidlius C. Tapper, D. D., was called to fill the 
vacancy, and for eleven years he ofliciated in the Supreme 
Court room, and in the Chapel, which the congregation had 
caused to be erected, watching the upbuilding of the temple 
which grew to be the ornament of the city. He resigned his 
office to acce])t a call at Leavenworth, Kan., jnst before the 
new Clnii-cli was com]ileted. 




CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. 

OCCUPIED EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1887. 



THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 229 



PART SECOND. 



THE BUILDIXG OF THE CHUKCH. 

MAKE TIIOU MINE EARTHLY HABITATION GLORIOUS. 
BY FAY HEMPSTEAD. 

Tall tower that risest fair and liigli, 

Toward the vault of yonder sky, 

And beamest o'er a prospect wide, 

Of city waste and country side ; 

Look down in grace and grandeur more. 

And stateliness than e'er before; 

Look on us drawn through many ways 

To lift the voice of grateful praise, 

For this the end of all the toil, 

The delving hand, the ceaseless moil ; 

Of all the labor and the care, 

That marked thy growth from year to year : 

And brought thee on by slow degree, 

To this full strength that crowneth thee ! 

Fair house, ye long in building rose; 
And now thy far-drawn labors close, 
Thou standest clad in splendid guise. 
All rich in tint and fair in dyes. 
Like the King's daughter art thou made 
In vesture glorious arrayed. 
O'er aisle and chancel, nave and beam. 
The sunrays, many-tinted, stream, 
As clear thy blazoned windows shine, 
Through vaulted arches roofed with pine. 
And holier seeming shalt thou make, 
Yon organ's rolling thunders shake ; 

—16— 



230 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Or loud thy towered steeple clang, 
When some deej) clarion there shall hang, 
And scatter through the smitten air. 
The wide repeated call to prayer : 
Or yet o'er dirges sad and low, 
Shall toll a deeper note of woe. 

And what were all the past regret 
So slowly wert thou forward set ? 
Doth not this day for all atone ? 
The triumph of this day alone? 
'Not this enough ? Doth not the end 
For all the past make fit amend ? 
Yea, should we rather honor those, 
Who from the dawning to the close, 
The zealous few, the willing hand, 
Who wrought watli ready heart and hand, 
Through hours of censure and dispraise; 
Through weary seasons, cheerless days ; 
Through days of failure, times of doubt, 
Till thus the end is brought about. 

And long mayest thou, O house of prayer. 

Stand in thy shining presence there ! 

Long may the years go by ere thou 

Shalt lightly show on breast or brow. 

The earlier traces of decay. 

Or that thy beauty fade away ! 

Long may ye stand to be indeed 

The center of thy people's need, 

And be for them the force that stays, 

Their footsteps through life's winding ways ! 

To thee oft come the trusting bride 
And pledge to him who stands beside. 
Her life entire with his entwined. 
One equal blend of heart and mind. 
To thee for long the child be brought. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

And in thy holy lessons tanght, 

To lisp the prayer, to hymn the praise, 

Through numberless succeeding days. 

In thee through time eternal be, 

The infant pledged to purity ; _ 

The cross be signed up(jn the front. 

Beside the waters of thv Font. 

And as the future time unfolds, 

Full many be the zealous souls. 

To dedicate their lives anew, 

To worship of the Pure and True ; 

Full many at thy sacred board, 

By faith feed on the risen Lord, 

And take through grace of Love Divine, 

As sacred types, the bread and wine ! 

And more: when past thy portal go, 
The feet that moving sad and slow, 
Bear lowly forth the bier and pall, 
To that low house that waiteth all, 
Oh, may the word from out thy place, 
Drv off the tear from many a face, 
O/ those who mourn the spirit fled. 
To those fair lands where rest the dead ; 
And be the well-springs of relief. 
To quell the rising pangs of grief. 

And thou, O servant of His grace. 
That speakest from the Holy place. 
What Minister soe'er shall prove 
Interpreter to speak His love. 
Be blessings showered on thy ways. 
And peacebe on thy forward days ! 
May all thy walk be whole and good. 
Thy labors crowned with plentitude; 
Thv pravers be voices of the heart, 
Inwhieii thy inner self hath part! 



231 



232 TE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Be purity in alb and stole, 

But typical of cleanly soul, 

And through the voice of fervor hurled, 

Preach thou the Christ to all the world ! 

— Fay Hempstead. 



EEPOKT OF COMMITTEE 

ox THE COST OF BUILDING CHRIST CHURCH^ ACCOMPANIED BY 
AN ITEMIZED STATEMENT. 

Little Ptock, Ark., 1887. 

To the Rector and Vestry of Christ Church: 

Gentlemen — Your committee have examined the books, 
and papers of the building committee of Christ Church, and 
after a thorough investigation, beg leave to submit the enclosed 
itemized statement of receipts and expenditures. This state- 
ment includes the names of subscribers and the amounts sub- 
scribed ; the cost of windows donated, and the names of the 
donors ; and the amounts paid for pews, and the names of the 
purchasers, and shows that — 

The foundation cost $10,719.14: 

The superstructure cost 45,799.01 

$56,518.15 

Amount received from subscribers, 

windows and pews $38,945.58 

Amount received from sale of 

Rectory 3,361.75 

Amount received from insurance on 

old church and interest 5,211.49 

Amount received fi-om sale of ma- 
terial, etc 1,999.33 

$49,518.15 $49,518.15 

Leaving a debt of $ 7,000.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 233 

It is but justice to the building committee to sav in this 
report, what is well known to every member of this congrega- 
tion, that they have built for us a most suitable and beautiful 
church at a remarkably low price, and the thanks of every 
member of Christ Church are due to them as a committee and 
individually. 

Colonel S. L. Griffith rendered a service in soliciting con- 
tributions, witli a degree of success that no one with h^ss than 
his great zeal and urbanity could have achieved. 

Mr. W. B. Wait has for years given to us the benefit of a 
ripe financial wisdom, that has guided the committee through 
difficulties that must otherwise have materially postponed the 
completion of the building. Such services could not be pro- 
cured for money. 

Mr. J. H. Haney for five years has superintended the 
work on the building; seen that everything was done in 
accordance with contracts and specifications ; rendering ser- 
vices that have certainly lessened the cost of the building 10 
per cent, with faithfulness and love of the work which it would 
be impossible to hire. 

Mr. G. H. Van Etten has given the conunittee the benefit 
of his extensive acquaintance with the market price of build- 
ing material, enabling them to buy with rare judgmeut, and 
at the right time and place. 

Mr. Logan H. Roots has ever stood ready to furnish the 
means for the steady continiuTuce of the work, which but for 
Ills timely pecuniary assistance must have stopped many times. 
This willingness to advance money to a struggling Church is 
one of the rarest of virtues. 

Mr. W. G. Whipple, though not a mend)er of the com- 
mittee, yet eager to aid in the completion of the building, has 
taken upon himself the most disagreeable duty of soliciting 
subscriptions, and has performed the work in a manner that 
can only be appreciated when the large amount ])aid in is 
considered. L. K. STAEK, 

R. L. GOODRICH, 
F. D. CLARKE, 

Committee. 



234 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

P. S. — It is only honest to state that the immense amount 
of clerical work and investigation imposed by you upon this 
committee, has been performed entirely by Mr. Ralph L. 
Goodrich, the other two members only verifying his results. 

'l. e. stark, 
f. d. clarke. 

itemized statement. 

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND AMOUNTS SUBSCRIBED TO CHRIST 

CHURCH. 

Augspath, Mrs. Aldence $ 20.00 

Arkansas Pump and Pipe Co 2.43 

Anderson, Mrs 5.00 

Adams, Sam B 68.75 

Adams, Mrs. E. C. (window $300, cash $475) . . . 775.00 

Adams, W. W 105.00 

Allis, H. B 10.00 

Adams, Mrs. K. and Mrs. Woodruti' (col. by) ... . 56.25 

Abeles & Co., C. T 25.00 

Abeles, Cook & Co 66.59 

Alexander, J. C 10.00 

Allis, H. G 90.00 

Adams, A. F 6.75 

Austin, J. W 1 5.00 

Adams, Jno. D. (window $800, pew $2,000, 

cash $500) 3,300.00 

Adams, Mrs. John D. (rugs) 11.00 

Adams, J. Dudley 133.75 

Barber, L. E. (window $300, cash $400) 700.00 

Barber, Gwinn 25.00 

Bay, J. L 7.00 

Blass, Jacob 1.00 

Butler, CM 100.00 

Benjamin, M. W 25.00 

Brower, K A 50.00 

Blass & Co., Gus 20.00 

Baird, J. W 25.00 



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Brevsacher, Mrs. and Little May 6.00 

Breysacher, A. L 125.00 

Bernays, L. C 100.00 

Bein, H. H 5.00 

Beach, A. D 5.00 

Brack, G. S 180.00 

Bunch, T. H 10.00 

Bankes, T. W 175.00 

Belding, A 5.00 

Brown, Geo. Euss 25.00 

Bartlett, B. J 32.00 

Butler, Robert 5.00 

Oc-hrane, Mrs. H. K 5.00 

Clements, Miss Jennie B 20.00 

Cribbs, Miss Lee 5.00 

Caldwell, H. C 10.00 

Carnes, P. H 10.00 

Carroll, Mrs. Rachel 25.00 

Carroll, Miss Fannie 5.00 

Crease, Miss (col. by) 10.00 

Christ Church Sunday School 83.00 

Christ Church S. S. (Easter col. at Church) .... 174.35 

Calef & Deshon 20.00 

Colburn & Co., J. M 10.00 

Cohen, Albert 10.25 

Clark, Sol F 10.00 

Cohn, M. M 15.00 

Conrad, C. H 17-50 

( ^ole, C. H 100.00 

Cockrill, S. R 250.00 

Clements, Jno. B 2.10 

Curran, W. S 8.75 

Clark, F. D 25.00 

Cantrell, W. A 30.00 

Cherry, L. W 5.00 

Carroll, C. S -l-OO 

Carroll, S. C 2.00 

Cassenelli, L. D 2.00 



236 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Deshon, A. G. (window $200, cash $100) 300.00 

Duiigan, Jno 5.00 

Dibrell, Mrs. Dr 10.00 

Darragh, T. J 10.00 

Davis, Oscar 10.00 

Donations by ladies (col. bv Mrs. Haney) 9.00 

Deuell, E. V ". 100.00 

Dooley, P. C 85.00 

Dougfass, E. E 25.00 

Dean, C. C 10.00 

Eletclier, John G 200.00 

Fatherly, W. A 7.00 

Eones ]3ros 84.80 

Erolich, Mrs 25.00 

Eaber, H 1.00 

Eeeton, Jno 15.00 

Earrell, Wm 50.00 

Gibson, L. P 10.00 

Goodwin, John W ." 100.00 

Godbold, A 5.00 

Gross & Leigh 35.00 

Goodrich, Ralph L. (window $250, cash $370) . . 620.00 

Griffith, S. L 205.00 

Garland, A. H 35.00 

Hooper, P. 50.00 

Haney, J. H 200.00 

Hutt, A. J 8.75 

Hntt, W. S 33.75 

Hughes, Geo. A 10.00 

Hornibrook, Jas. A 10.00 

Hempstead, E 5.00 

Hall, Mr 5.00 

Homan, Mrs 1 0.00 

Halliburton, W. H 50.00 

Jabine, John N" 110.00 

Jabine, Mrs. Harry 5.00 

Jones, D. E. . . . 15.00 

Jordan, Miss Matilda 5.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 237 

H. C. Jones lU.UU 

Jennings, K. G 100.00 

Ivirkwood, J. B 1 7.50 

Kirkwood, T. C 17.50 

Kirkwood, Geo. F 12.50 

Kramer, Fred 20.00 

Kutner, Wm 1.00 

Kirten, Wm 92.50 

Kendrick, J. T 40.00 

Knapp, Gilbert ">0.00 

Krause, ]\Iiss Lou 50.00 

Lawson, Miss Nellie 5.00 

Ladies' Aid Society 5,G14.00 

Ladies' Aid Society (carpets) 1,170.00 

Ladies' Aid Society (upholstery) 125.00 

Ladies' Aid Society (wardrobe) 25.50 

Landeau, Alex 50 

I^awson, Mrs. James (col. by) 4.50 

Lewis, Mrs. L. (wiudoAv $300, with Peyton, Peay, 

and Crease) 1 5.00 

Lincoln, C. J 100.00 

Lenow, Mrs. J. 11 85.00 

Martin, Mrs. A. E 100.00 

Meade, Geo. H 325.00 

Miller, Jas. E 200.00 

Mortimer, H 1.00 

:McCarthv, J. H 100.00 

McNair,' Willis 2.00 

McSwine, G. R 10.00 

Marye, Travers 5.00 

Maxwell, Mrs. Mary J 1 7.50 

Murphy, Will J. . *^. 8.75 

Matthews, E. J 50.00 

Matthews, Jno. L 100.00 

Mandlebaum, J. J 3.50 

Martin, Fred 5.00 

Mitchell, Jno. A 10.00 

Miller, D 30.00 



238 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Miller, Wiley B 297.00 

Mivelaz, P. L 1.00 

Maxwell, Family 100.00 

Matthews, Miss Annie 5.00 

Mitchell, John 10.00 

Martin, R. W 10.00 

Mast, J. W 2.50 

Martin, Geo. W 5.00 

McSwine, Mrs. P. A 5.00 

Mivelaz, P 2.00 

Morrell, Miss Lottie (Bible book mark) 25.00 

Xewton, E. C 40.00 

Newton, T. W 5.00 

ISTavra, Sam 5.00 

Peay, Mrs. Sue (window $300, cash $17) 317.00 

PeaV, G. N. 145.84 

Powell, T. C 5.00 

Percival, J. M 20.00 

Parker, Ed W 17.50 

Percival, J. C 10.00 

Pollock, A 2.50 

Pettefer, Ambrose 30.00 

Pettefer, H 30.00 

Polk, R. J 75.00 

Peyton, Mrs. C. (window $300, cash $40, Crease, 

Peay, etc.) 340.00 

Phillips, Philip (concert) 42.75 

Pollock, J. S 25.00 

Pabodie, Mrs 5.00 

Parkins, Mrs. S 10.00 

Penzel, C. F 25.00 

(^linn & Gray 25.00 

Paiiland, Mr.' 10.00 

Rudolph, C 1.00 

Ruley, A. G 30.00 

Reeves, W. L 15.00 

Reeves, E. T 10.00 

Rvan & Co., A. TT 1.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 239 

Eoots, Mrs. E. M 50.00 

Kees, S. P 5.00 

Eector, H. M 10.00 

Eose, U. M 233.33 

Eoberts, W. L 6.25 

Eeed, F. C 1 0.00 

Eeiley, T. G 10.00 

Eoots, P. K 300.00 

Eoots, P. K. (altar) 135.00 

Eather, H. C 5.00 

Eoots, L. H. (window $1,200, two pews $4,000, 

cash $4,014.54) 9,214.54 

Smothers, L. P 35.00 

Shadinger, J. H 5.00 

Sevier, "a. H 175.00 

Stanus, W. N 5.00 

Shuio-hter, J. A S7.50 

Stark, Dr. L. E 20.00 

Smith, Sam 100.00 

Stewart, Bavlor E 1 7.50 

Smith, Mrs.' E. S 4.00 

Shaw, M. W 5.00 

Stiflft, C. S 5.00 

Sterling, Mrs. B. B 1 0.00 

Stratman, G. II 50.00 

Scott, Mrs. E. L 25.00 

Seward, S. B 10.00 

Sappington, Mrs. Colonel 10.00 

Skipwith, Mrs 10.00 

Sannoner, J. H 05.00 

Smith, W. W 250.00 

Smith, J. W 1 5.00 

Sell, Mrs. H 5.00 

Scott, Miss Fanny (by subs., altar cross) 52.50 

Shall, Miss Mary and others (Com. service) .... 500.00 

Turner, W. J. . .' 62.50 

Trezzare, Miss A. E 2.00 

Trezevant, J. T., Jr 142.73 



240 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Townsley, H. S 10.00 

Townslej, E. G 10.00 

Terry, F. A 6.25 

Tupper, T. C 75.00 

Trumpler, J. F 1.00 

Thompson, W. J 10.00 

Tobey, W. E 10.00 

Taylor, Dr. C. M. (col. by Miss Crease) 100.00 

Urquhart, E. (pew $2,000) 500.00 

Upham, Mrs. Lizzie (window $250, cash $25) . . . 275.00 

Van Etten, G. H. (pew $2,000) 2,000.00 

Vickers, H. L 10.00 

Wilson, W. T 5.00 

Woodruff, Wm. E., Jr 50.00 

Woodruff, Mrs. W. E., Jr 20.00 

Woodruff, dies. A 8.75 

Woodruff, Miss Willie 5.00 

Woodruff", Miss Georgia and ]\[rs. Jno. Jabine 

(Bishop's chair) T 75.00 

Waters, CO 50.00 

Whipple, Wm. G 150.00 

Whipple, Wm. G. (C. C. concert) 44.30 

Wright, W. F 300.00 

Webster, Geo 10.00 

Watkins, Miss Ida $105.00 

Watkins, Miss Georgia C 100.00 

Window 300.00 505.00 

Wright, W. H 25.00 

West, Henry C 8.75 

Wilson & Webb 1 5.00 

Watkins, Dr. Claiborne 475.00 

Wells & Dungan 17.27 

Woodsmall, W. H 20.00 

Williams, Ham 5.00 

Williams & Co., by Slaughter 100.00 

Waters, D. S. . . .' 45.00 

Worthen, W. B 00.00 

Wait, W. B 1,203.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 241 

Wassell, John (window $350, cash $510) SdO.OO 

Young Ladies' Guild (font) 205.00 

Young Ladies' Guild (Bible) 50.00 

Zinmiernian, J. V 70.00 

Amount individual subscriptions $38,945.58 

Kectory, sale of $ 3,301.75 

jMaterials sold by Captain Haney 1.00 

Proceeds of pressed brick 121.25 

M. & L. E. K. E. overcharges 'J3.33 

M. & L. E. E. E. overcharges 0.00 

Overfreight 2 1 .00 

Overwork 5.00 

Insurance on old church 5,211.49 

From sale of old material on foundation, etc 1,751.75 

Amount derived from other sources than indi- 
vidual subscriptions $10,572.57 

Forward individual subscriptions 38.945.58 



$49,518.15 
Debt 7,000.00 



Total cost $50,518.15 

LIST OF WINDOW SUBSCRIBERS. 

Adams, John I) $ 800.00 

Adams, Mrs. E. C 300.00 

Barber, Mrs. L. E 300.00 

Deshon, Mrs. A. G 200.00 

Goodrich, E. L 250.00 

Peay, Mrs. Sue ;>,00.00 

Peyton, Mrs. C. (Crease, Peay, Lewis) ;500.00 

ITpham, Mrs. Lizzie 250.00 

Wassell, Mrs. J 350.00 

Warkins, Misses Ida and Georgia C 300.00 

Eoots, L. H ^ 1,200.00 

$ 4,550.00 



242 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Actual cost of foundation as per 

books $10,719.14 

Actual cost of superstructure as per 

books $35,704.67 

Account paid 188.09 

Account paid 180.00 

Choir pews 74.00 

Ventilating apparatus 105.00 

Insurance 500.00 

Altar cross 52.50 

Altar 135.00 

Bishop's chair 75.00 

Bible 50.00 

Font 265.00 

Credence 20.00 

Carpets 1,170.00 

Stools 125.00 

Wardrobe 25.00 

Bible mark 25.00 

Moving organ 75.00 

Communion service 500.00 

Bugs 11.00 

Safe and furniture 130.00 

$39,410.26 $39,410.26 

$50,129.40 
Less amounts not chargeable to cost 

of church as advances returned. $ 880.00 
Repairs on rectory 281.25 

Borrowed money now included in 

item "debt'' 4,000.00 

$ 5,161.25 $ 5,161.25 

$44,968.15 

Debt 7,000.00 

Windows 4,550.00 

Total cost $56,518.15 




REV. T. C. TUPPER, D. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 243 

COST OF FOUXDATION. 

Received. Expended. 

Trezevant $ 8,983.08 $ 8,906.34 

Wait 810.32 772.45 

AVait 130.00 184.61 

Wassell 795.74 795.74 

$10,719.14 $10,719.14 

COST OF SUPERSTRUCTURE. 

Total amt. received as per books, etc. $34,249.01 

Total amt. expended as per books, etc. $34,249.01 

Debt 7,000.00 7,000.00 

Windows 4,550.00 4,550.00 

$56,518.15 $56,518.15 

Whole amt. subscribed to church, individuals and 

windows, etc $38,945.58 

oale of rectory 3,361.75 

Insurance on old church 5,211.49 

Sale of materials, etc 1,999.33 

Debt 7,000.00 

$56,518.15 

REV. TULLIUS C. TUPPER, D. D. 

A. D. 1846-1895. Bev. TuUlus C. Tapper, D. D., was 
born in Canton, Miss., December 6, 1846. His parents were 
of the old Southern patrician stock. His father, General 
T. C. Tupper, "whose name was a household word in Missis- 
sippi," was a very eminent lawyer and one of the most polished 
and courtly men of his State. He was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Pettus and commissioned major general of the Missis- 
sippi State troops during the Civil War. His wife, Mrs. 



244 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Mary Harding Draiie Tupper, was a descendant of a leading 
family in Sontliern Kentncky. Their son, Eev. Dr. Tnpper, 
was educated at the University of Mississippi, and afterwards 
for the law, and was admitted to the bar soon after his father's 
death, in 1867. In 1868-69 he served as clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Madison County, and in the following year resumed 
the practice of law, forming a partnership with W. C. Cal- 
lioon, brother of the Hon. S. S. Calhoon, late of the Supreme 
Court of Mississipi^i. In the latter part of 1871 Dr. Tup- 
l)er, having fully decided to prepare himself for the sacred 
ministry, was admitted a candidate for orders in that Diocese, 
and then entered and j)ursued his theological studies at the 
Xashotali Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. In 1873, 
soon after the death of his mother, he was ordained Deacon, 
and in July, 1874, admitted to the sacred order of Priests by 
Bishop Green, and assigned to an extensive field of missionary 
work in xsTorth Mississippi, from which point he was called to 
the pastorate of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Memphis, 
Tenn., and in the following year to the charge of Christ 
Church, Little Rock, Ark., where he served eleven years. A 
distinguished journalist, now of Atlanta, Ga., said of him: 
^'He was not only a pastor of Christ Church but a citizen in 
every sense of the word. He was honored by the State with 
positions of trust connected with State institutions, and was 
r. potent factor in all works of charity in the city of Little 
Itock. Everybody loved and honored him there, if we may 
judge from the encomiums heaped upon him by the press of 
the State on his dejtarture. He is a classical scholar, and in 
evidence of the aj)preciation of him, both within the fold and 
outside of his Church, the Board of Trustees of the State 
University of Arkansas conferred upon him honoris causa in 
1884, the degree of doctor of divinity. Since leaving Little 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 245 

Rock, Dr. Tupper lias held important charges, both in paro- 
chial and missionary work, in the Diocese of Kansas, Georgia, 
and Alabama. In Jnly, 1874, he was married to Miss 
Imogen Hicks, of Sardis, Miss., a niece of Colonel John R. 
Dickens, who w^as a colonel in the Confederate army. From 
this union there were born six sons and four daughters, all of 
whom are now living. The eldest child. Miss Mary Dickens 
Tupper, was married in 1895 to Professor Philip Dudley 
Youngblood, of Atlanta, Ga., of fine family lineage, a distin- 
guished young teacher and chemist, both in the public schools 
and colleges of that city. Miss Viola Tupper, the second 
daughter, was married ISTovember 17, 1898, to Mr. Robert 
S. Barnett, a journalist, of Mexico City. Tullius C, the 
eldest son, is engaged in railroad business with the superin- 
tendent of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ; 
Vernon 8., the second son, has just entered the University of 
the South to study for the ministry. The other children, 
Clifton Haywood, Imogen, Walter Vivian, Rosalind, La- 
monte, and Noland, are living with their parents. 

The following named gentlemen, most of whom have 
gone to their reward, were the Wardens and Vestrymen dur- 
ing the Rectorship of Dr. Tupper : 

Luke E. Barber, Senior Warden. 

R. H. Parham, Junior Warden. 

William B. Wait. 

W. W. Smith. 

J. H. Haney. 

Robert J. Matthews. 

William G. Whipple. 

Logan H. Roots. 

Geo. H. Van Etten. 

Samuel L. Griffith. 

P. K. Roots. 

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246 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Judge Joliu Wassell was Junior Warden up to the time 
of his death, when he was succeeded by Major R. H. Parham. 

William B. Wait, Albert O'Neal, xVlbert Wassell, and 
E. H. Parham were respectively treasurers of the parish dur- 
ing this Rectorship. Mrs. Logan H. Roots and Miss Geor- 
gie Woodruff were president and treasurer of the Ladies' 
Aid Society. Mrs. Kerr was organist. Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. 
Ivatzenberg (Mandlebaum), Mrs. Williams, Miss May Can- 
trell, Miss iS^ellie Clark, Major Smith, Colonel W. G. 
Whipple were members of the choir, the greater part of the 
time ; also Miss Daisy Cantrell and Miss Isadore Cantrell, 
successively. Colonel and Mrs. W^hipple were connected 
with the choir for the entire eleven years. During this time 
the Sunday School was increased from forty children to 250 
with a good corps of teachers, with Colonel L. H. Roots, suc- 
ceeded by Major P. K. Roots as superintendent, and Mrs. 
P. K. Roots as organist. During Dr. Tupper's incumbency 
the Cha2:)el was built and the new Church edifice was 
brought nearly to completion. He had held services in 
the Supreme C^ourtroom and in the Chamber of Com- 
merce, while the Chapel was in course of construction. 
All the energy and enthusiasm of the congregation were 
brought to bear towards the accomplishment of this object. 
Bazaars were held, and concerts and cantatas were given for 
the purpose. This Chapel was completed and used for wor- 
ship for nine years. The new Church gradually rose beside 
it. and the last touches were being added in the Avay of Avin- 
dcws, and furniture, when Dr. Tupper resigned. Besides 
the windows already described, there were three in the north 
wall of the nave and one in the Chancel. This was a beau- 
tiful representation of Christ blessing the little ones, with 
fifteen life-sized figures. The inscription is 'To the glory 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 247 

of God and inemory of our sons," by Logan H. and Emily 
Koots. The window in the nave near the south transept^^ rep- 
resents the resurrection, with three figures, Christ, the Angel, 
and Roman soldier. The inscription is "In memory of 
Daniel Phillips Upliam, Xovember 18, 1882." It was 
donated by his widow. The next is "In memory of Hugh 
Hogart Bein, died April 18, 1884." This represents Apol- 
los, "an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures," with 
the angel- — two figures. Donated by the widow. The next 
window, representing two female figures, is inscribed "In 
loving memory of Albert Gallatin Dcshon, February 28, 
1884." Donated by the widow. In the front of the C-hurcli 
and above what was intended to be used as an organ loft, is 
a beautiful rose window, with the Holy Dove on the wing. 
The light coming through this window is intercepted by an 
organ loft, which is reached by a staircase going up in the 
north side of the vestibule entrance. Neither the staircase 
nor the loft was in the original design of the architect, wlio 
left the sj^ace on the south side of the altar for the organ, as 
is usual in all Episcopal Churches of size. This space had 
been walled up for a room by the building committee, and 
the organ, when taken from the Chapel, was set up in the 
organ loft. The Rector, Rev. Wallace Carnahan, did not 
approve of this, and, on the Easter Sunday marked by the 
first service in the Church, a cabinet organ, placed tem]>o- 
rtirily near the chancel, was used. The next week, witli con- 
sent of the congregation, the room was torn away and the 
organ conveyed from the loft to the place thus made vacant, 
where it has since remained. In the wall of the north 
transept is a large window, representing tlie four evangelists, 
lifesize, Matthew, JMark, Luke, and John, witli their sym- 
bolic figures, the ]\Ian, the Lion, tlie Ox, and tlie Eagle, at 



248 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

their feet. This beautiful window was donated bj Major 
John D. Adams. It bears no inscription. The window 
opposite, of the same size^ has been reserved for the portraits 
of the four Missionary Bishops, Polk, Otey, Freeman, and 
Lay, but the funds collected by Mrs. Sappington, president 
of the Chancel Guild, for that purpose, not proving to be suf- 
ficient for that object, were devoted to a handsome eagle 
lectern in memory of Bishop Otey and two prayer desks in 
memory of Bishop Freeman, and Bishop Polk, and a pulpit 
in memory of Bishop Lay. It is earnestly hoped that the 
original idea may be developed and the window completed, 
which is now merely stained in solid, light green. One other 
window in the northwest wall is still unappropriated. The 
Chancel walls to north and south are pierced with two rectang- 
ular windows in each^ while in the clere-story of the nave 
are eight trefoil windows. The altar table of carved walnut 
was donated by Major P. K. Roots as a "Thank Offering." 
The Bishop's chair was donated by Mrs. John 1^. Jabine and 
her sister. Miss Georgine Woodruff. The Rector's chair was 
donated by the Chancel Guild. The font and Bible were 
donated by the Young Ladies' Guild. The handsome vesti- 
bule is lighted from the south by two rectangular windows, 
the staircase closing the north Avail, originally designed for 
two similar ones. 

Dr. Tupper did not remain to enjoy the fruition of his 
eleven years' labor. His conservatism had been a rock of 
refuge in this age of radicalism. Secure in the affections and 
approbation of his congregation, which was uncompromisingly 
of Low Church principles, he had pursued "the even tenor of 
his way," making a sermon of his life. The ceremonial of pomp 
and display of vestments was not acceptable to the mass of 
Episcopalians in the State. Church history may bear witness 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 249 

to the usage of this ehiborate ceremonial, but the testimony of 
the four evangelists and the apostles does not show it to have 
been established hy the Divine Head of the Church on earth. 
He wore a distinctive dress, it is true, described by St. John 
as ''without seam, woven from the top throughout," but there 
is no mention of albs, stoles, cassocks, chasubels, copes, and 
mitres in the accounts of His priestly wardrobe. "The 
breastplate and ephod, the robe and broidered coat, a mitre 
and girdle made of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, and 
fine twined linen" may be the right things to wear in a Jew- 
ish tabernacle, but are they anywhere prescribed for the 
ministers of Christ ? 

Dr. Tupper decided to accept a call to Leavenworth, 
Kan., which seemed to come to him providentially in 
a painful crisis of mental doubt. He announced his inten- 
tion of leaving for that place and that he would preach his 
farewell sermon to his Little Rock parishioners on June 6. 
His resignation took eifect June 1. The farewell sermon 
was preached on the first Sunday after Ascension from the 
text "Love one another," John xv. 12. He left for Kansas 
without his family, but was recalled to conduct the burial ser- 
vices of the Senior Warden, Luke E. Barber, who died on 
Sunday morning, the 13th of June. On the 16th Dr. Tup- 
per took his departure for Kansas, accompanied by his 
family. The Church, which was begun when he took charge 
of the parish, was finished outwardly, but he did not see the 
completion of the work he had so long overlooked. 

"So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither 
he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase." 

At this Avriting, Dr. Tupper is in charge of Christ 
Church, Portsmouth, Ohio, where he is most highly esteemed. 
An extract from a Portsmouth paper says : 



250 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Dr. Tupper gave two excellent sermons at All Saints' 
Cliurch. The morning discourse was of the nature of a 
beautiful lecture upon the thought "As he thinketh in his 
heart so he is." 

The illustration used was Hawthorne's Intelligence 
Office and the ''Book of Wishes." 

For the evening sermon the text was St. Luke xix. 12-13. 
"A certain nobleman went into a far country, and he called 
his ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said unto 
them, occupy till I come." 

This sermon was a helpful, earnest talk. 

Dr. Tupper's dignity and polished diction and forcible 
gestures add much to the strength of his really fine sermons. 

The outlook for the Episcopal Churches in Portsmouth 
is exceeding promising. 

Dr. Tui^per comes to us when the w^eather is almost un- 
bearable, yet he has gone about among his people unceasingly 
and serenely as if the mercury registered at the most delight- 
ful point. There is hardly a member of his congregation 
who feels that Dr. Tupper is a stranger, his sympathies are 
so quick and his manner so cordial. 

A. D. 1833-1871. The Junior Warden who succeeded 
Luke E. Barber as Senior Warden, during Dr. Tupj^er's in- 
cumbency was Richard Henry Parham, son of Richard Hill 
and Henrietta Elizabeth Parham, who was born in Sussex 
County, Va., December 18, 1833. His ancestors have been 
residents of Virginia from early colonial days. His grand- 
parents on his father's side have been Methodist preachers 
in Virginia for more than a hundred years. Mr. Parham's 
ancestors on his father's side were Parhams and Hills ; on 
his mother's side, they were Parhams, Booths, and Blands. 
In 1843 his family moved overland from Virginia to Mar- 
shall County, Miss. So difficult then were means of travel 
that it took two weeks to make the trip of fifty miles from 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 251 

their Mississippi home to Memphis. The only raih'oad in 
the South was the Petersburg and Weldon Kailroad. Mv. 
Parham's earliest recollections are associated with the cutting 
of timbers by his father's negroes for the construction of this 
railway. 

Mr. Parham was educated in the elements of learning in 
an old field school, as such schools were called in those days. 
In his seventeenth year he entered the freshman class in the 
University of Mississippi at Oxford, and graduated in 1854. 

After leaving the uni^•ersity, Mr. Parham taught school 
occasionally, but he spent the greater part of his time on his 
father's plantation pursuing his favorite studies. In those 
days he was strongly inclined to the ministry. Theology was 
his favorite study. In 1858 he was married to Ora C. Treze- 
vant, daughter of Brooks Robards Trezevant and Rachel 
Godwin Trezevant, in Memphis, Tenn. Rt. Rev. Bishop 
Otey performed the marriage ceremony. Since marriage, 
Mr. Parham has lived the greater part of the time in Little 
Rock, having moved to that city June 28, 1871. Since he 
came to Little Rock, except the first year, he has been con- 
tinuously engaged in teaching. He has two daughters 
living, Godwin, wife of ]\Ir. Gray Carroll, and Ora, wife of 
Mr. Powell Clayton, both of Little Rock. There are two 
granddaughters, Godwin and Courtney Carroll, and one 
grandson, John Middleton Clayton. 

]\rajor Parham has been a valuable and highly esteemed 
member of Christ Church for many years, having served in 
the capacity of Secretary, Junior and Senior Warden. As 
he passes along the decline of life, his path is embellished 
with the tempered sunshine of an approving conscience and 
the flowers of good deeds done. He resigned the office of 
Junior Warden to 



252 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

COLO^TEL S. L. GRIFFITH. 

A. D. 1818-1866. Colonel S. L. Griffith was born in 
Harford County, Md., in 1818, and on attaining his majority 
moved to Fort Smith, Ark., in 1839. He married Elizabeth 
K^icks in 1844. Of this marriage there were two sons, John 
JSTicks and George Nicks Griffith, w^ho both died in infancy. 
Colonel and Mrs. Griffith moved to Little Rock in 1866 and 
became members of Christ Church. He was for some years 
a member of the Vestry and was chosen Junior Warden in 
1885. He died in Little Rock January, 1893, after a long 
and successful career as a leading dry goods merchant. He 
was a thoroughly refined gentleman, and is affectionately 
remembered by his early friends. He was buried in Mount 
Holly Cemetery. 

CHRIST CHURCH RECTORY. 

A. D. 1849-1866. During the incumbency of Rev. 
Andrew F. Freeman as Rector of Christ Church there was no 
demand for a Rectory, as he, with his father and mother, 
lived in their own residence ; but when Bishop Lay succeeded 
to the jurisdiction of Arkansas and also to the office of Rector 
of Christ Church, he saw the need of one, and urged his par- 
ishioners to enter upon some plan for erecting a home for 
future ministers. The ''Ladies' Aid Society," which was 
organized at that time, with Mrs. Sim Bostick president, and 
Mrs. Charles G. Scott as vice president, began to devise ways 
and means for collecting funds with this object in view. 

A. D. 1868-1875. "The (\u'onation of the Rose as 
Queen uf Flowers," a cantata, was ])resented at the city hall 
bv fiftv eliildren and vouna' liirls, in tliree successive vears. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 253 

The net proceeds of the first presentation was $250j^ the 
second $500, the third $400, whole amount $1,150, the 
receipts for which were placed in the hands of the treasurer 
of the Church, Mr. Wm. B. Wait. About three years later 
"The Twin Sisters," an operetta, was presented twice ; at 
the first the sum of $180 was netted, and at the second 
representation $77.15. In 1881 another operetta^ "The 
Miracle of the Roses," was presented by children and 
girls and yielded a profit of $80. To this amount, $1,437.15, 
a handsome sum was added l)v the i:>roceeds of two or three 
concerts ; one, combined with a strawberry festival, was given 
at the Dutch Garden (situated in the block bounded by Third 
and Fourth streets and Commerce and Sherman), which 
yielded a clear profit of one thousand (1,000) dollars. 
Bazaars and suppers were also given and the proceeds added 
to this $1,437.15, with which the ground for the Tlectory 
was bought. This was located on the corner of Seventh and 
Cumberland streets. Mr. John E. Reardon gave to Christ 
Church a bond for title on February 5, 1867, and on August 
11, 1874, executed the deed for lots 7, 8, and 9, block 28, in 
the city of Little Rock, consideration $1,866.66. On this 
site the Rectory was built, fronting south, with four rooms, 
two on each side of a hall, at the end of which was a fifth room. 
A back porch with a storeroom taken off the east end, with a 
kitchen and servant's room in the backyard, completed what 
was thought to be a comfortable cottage. The Rev. P. G. 
Robert, with his wife, four sons and a daughter, was the first 
Rector to occupy it. He had been residing at the Crutchfield 
home, on Sixth and Cumberland streets, which has since given 
place to two new buildings. 

When Bishop H. ]S[. Pierce assumed the jurisdiction of 
Arkansas and Indian Territorv, he was the cuest of Islr. and 



254 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Mrs. Gilbert Ivnapp, on the corner of Seventh and Kector 
avenue. 

After Mr. Kobert resigned the Rectorship of Christ 
C'hnrch for that of the Holy Communion, in St. Louis, Mo., 
the Bishoj) asked that a second story be added for his use, 
which was accordingly done by the congregation, and he moved 
into it with his wife, two sons and two daughters. To this 
building of eight rooms Avas afterwards added on the west a 
long music room, opening by folding doors from the parlor, 
to be used for the study, exercise, and advancement of the 
science of music, to which the Bishop's family were devotees. 
The expense incurred by the building of this room was covered 
by the proceeds of concerts given by the young people. It 
was afterwards moved to the rear. Bishop Pierce and family 
occupied the Bectory for eight years. When they removed 
to the Bishop's own residence, southwest corner of Seventeenth 
and Spring streets. Rev. T. C. Tupper and family, who had, 
for about three or four years, occupied a cottage on Rock 
street, near Sixth, took up their abode at the Rectory. When 
Dr. Tupper removed to Leavenworth, Kan., the property was 
sold by the Vestry before mentioned, to Mr. Henry M. Cooper, 
recorded as follows: "Lot E 110, and lots 7, 8, 9, block 28, 
in the city of Little Rock, $3,361.75." This hardly 
covered the original outlay. The amount was added to 
the building fund of the new Church, while the next Rector, 
Rev. Wallace Carnahan, was obliged to rent a dwelling house 
until the Chapel, vdiich had been in use during the last nine 
years of Dr. Tupper's ministry, while the Church was being 
erected, was conveited into a Rectorv. 




REV. WALLACE CARNAHAN. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 255 

REV. WALLACE CARKAHAN. 

A. D. 1886. Rev. ^Wallace Carnalian, who succeeded 
Rev. Dr. T. C. Tupj)er as Rector of Christ Church, at Little 
Rock, September 1, 1886,* is a native of the Old Dominion, 
where his birth occurred April 18, 1843. His father dying 
whcii he was 8 years old, his mother moved with him to ]Srew- 
port, Ky., and there he received his literary education. He 
studied law and was admitted to the bar^ and afterward prac- 
ticed for about three years in jiartnership with the late Hon. 
Thomas L. Jones, member of Congress. At this period of 
his life ]\[r. Carnahan's attention was drawn to the ministry 
of the Episcopal Church. He abandoned the bar and entered 
upon the study of theology, which he pursued under Bishop 
Smith and the Rev. John IST. Norton, D. D. He was ordained 
to the Diaconate by Bishop Smith, June 9, 1869, and ordained 
to the Priesthood by Bishop Green in 1870. He spent the 
first four years of his ministry in the Diocese of Mississippi, 
and the seven years that followed in Western Texas as a mis- 
sionary. From Texas he was called to Grace Church, Annis- 
ton, Ala., and that parish was the field of his labors for six 
years. From Alabama he was called to Christ Church, Little 
Rock, September 1, 1886. In this Church Mr. Carnahan's 
work has been greatly blessed, and he is recognized as an able 
and eloquent preacher. 

Rev. Wallace Carnahan was married in Mississippi to 
Miss Mary S. Hart, a daughter of Captain John D. Hart, a 
planter of Madison County, Miss. He is the son of James 
and Caroline (Smith) Carnahan, natives of Virginia. The 
grandfather was liorn in County Antrim, Ireland, and was a 



*See Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas, published in 1889, 
by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis. 



256 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

noted Orangeman. The mother was a daughter of Major 
Henry Smithy a native of Maryland^ and one of the original 
settlers of Wheeling, Va. Mr. Carnahan's maternal grand- 
father was a eaj^tain of artillery in the Revolutionary war, 
and his services were acknowledged by an act of Congress. 



Mr. Carnahan resigned the Rectorship of Christ Church 
on account of failing health after eight years of service, so 
unremitting, so far-reaching in the purification of the 
Church in Arkansas, so helpful to the cause of missions, so 
unprecedented in the financial prosperity of the Chruch at 
home and throughout the Diocese, so uplifting in the standard 
of holiness in the parish, that the unanimous verdict of the 
public has been that he stands unequalled in spiritual fervor 
and eloquence, in culture and executive ability and the 
devoted allegiance of his parishioners, by any Rector of 
Christ Church Parish. 

A. D. 1887. In the second year of Mr. Carnahan's 
ministry he began editing a Church paper, which was pub- 
lished by the contributions of "The Young Ladies' Guild," 
and was entitled successively according to the expansion of 
the subscription list, "The Little Roch Churchman," "The 
Arkansas Churchman," and ""'The Anglo-Saxon Churchman" 
the last issue completing its third year in December, 1890, 
after "three years of steady progress in journalism." 

A. D. 1891. We quote from the May issue of "The 
Anglo-Saxon Churchman^ of ISOl, the following: 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 257 

CHKIST OHUECH, LITTLE ROCK. 

Anticipating the iniblication of the "Year Book" of 
Christ Church, Little Rock, we give an epitome of the statis- 
tics of the parish for the five years ending April 30, 1891. 

Baptisms 205 

Confirmations 172 

Marriages 37 

Burials 103 

CONTKIBUTIONS. 

For Parochial objects $55,218.24 

For Diocesan objects 953.60 

For Domestic Missions 836.33 

For Foreign Missions 210.18 

For other objects beyond the Diocese 403.60 

Total $57,651.95 

PRESENT STATUS. 

Families 356 

Souls (about) 1,700 

Communicants 620 

Sunday School — teachers, 36, pupils (about) 400. . . . 436 

VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY. 

Church edifice and grounds $60,000.00 

Rectory and grounds 8,500.00 

Mission Chapel and lot 1,500.00 

Total $70,000.00 

OFFICERS OF THE PARISH. 

Rev. Wallace Carnahan Rector. 

Rev. J. E. IT. Galbraith Assistant Minister. 

Major John D. Adams Senior Warden. 



258 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Dr. W. A. Cantrell Junior Warden. 

Major R. H. Parliam Secretary. 

]Mr, John W. Goodwin Treasurer. 

It is i^roper to state that the Rectorship of the Rev. T. C. 
Tupper, D. D., extended over a few months of the first of the 
above mentioned years, and that the following are to be 
credited to his ministry : 

Baptisms 13 

]\Iarriages 2 

Burials 2 

Contributions (about) $900.00 

Dr. Tupper left the parish with 329 communicants, and 
the new Church edifice nearly completed. 



As nothing could be so acceptable for accuracy and so 
interesting as an exponent of the zeal and influence of this 
magnetic preacher, some selections from his paper are here 
given : 

THE LITTLE ROCK CHURCIIMAX— Vol. 1, Xo. 1. 
January^ 1888. 

This little paper is published by the Young Ladies' 
Guild of Christ Church, Little Rock. It is edited by the 
Rector and the Assistant Minister, Rev. John Galbraith. Its 
object is the stimulation of parish work. To that end the 
doings of the various parish societies will be published, to- 
gether with the Diocesan news and items of general Church 
interest. Suggestions for the extension and advancement of 
the work will be ofl^ered ; and, above all things, true principles 
and right methods of work will be inculcated. Although 
it is expected that the circulation of the paper will be chiefly 
amongst the Churchmen of Little Rock, yet we shall be 
pleased to receive subscriptions from other parts of the 
Diocese, and even from "regions beyond." We shall be 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 259 

grateful to our brethren, clerical and lay, for items of local 
Cliurcli news. This paper is not published to make money. 
If there should be a surplus after paying expenses it will be 
fiiven to missions. 



Some of the congregation will be glad to know that the 
temporary window in the south transept is to be tinted, so 
as to soften the light that comes through the opalescent glass. 
Better still, before many months a stained glass window, 
memorial of the four Bishops deceased, who have exercised 
jurisdiction in Arkansas, will take the place of the temporary 
window. 



The old parish Sunday School, now known as the Cliapel 
Sunday School, is advancing in every element of healthy 
growth. The Chapel is almost as full as it will hold, and 
the instruction of the excellent teachers is more and more ap- 
preciated l)y the scholars. 



The teachers in all three of our Sunday Schools are 
remarkably capable and faithful. The Sunday School chil- 
dren have just sent $88 for domestic missions, making $26-2 
the Sundav School contributed to missions during the year 

1887. 



The success of St. Paul's Sunday School is most cheer- 
ing. It was placed where it Avas supposed a Sunday Scliool 
was most needed. The only available room that could be 
found was a vacated barroom. All signs of the evil spirits 
were removed and the work was begun the first Sunday in 
November. Over eighty scholars have been enrolled, and the 
attendance averages sixty. The only trouble is to find room 
for the constant increase. After awhile, God willing, we shall 
have a Chapel in West End. 



St. John's Sunday School (East End) was begun last 
Sunday, January 8, in Forest Grove schoolhouse, the use of 



260 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

which is kindly allowed us by the city school board. Five 
teachers and thirty scholars were in attendance. This is a 
grand field for loving, persistent work. In God's good time 
we look for the building of St. John's Chapel. 



There has been a marked improvement in the Church 
music of late. It is simple, devotional and Churchly, and 
well rendered. The congregation join in singing more and 
more, as they learn the music. The organist is a master of 
the instrument, and the choir is evidently in practice. 



The Christmas offerings amounted to $187.80. The 
largest the parish ever made. 



The Ladies' Aid Society, the most ancient organization 
in the parish, holds its own steadily. Besides keeping up its 
building association stock, this society has charge of the parish 
sociables, arranging, through committees^ for the musical and 
literary features of these delightful gatherings. For fear 
some reader outside Little Kock may suppose that our 
sociables are entertainments for raising money, we must 
explain that they are monthly meetings of the adult members 
of the parish for social intercourse and the refining influence 
of music and literary exercises. No admission is charged, 
and no collections are made. And we may add that in this 
parish no money is ever raised by fairs, suppers, concerts or 
r.uy other means, except direct giving. 



THE LITTLE ROCK CHURCHMAK 

Febkuary, 1888. 

EASTER OFFERIISTGS. 

One of the gems in the crown of the "Queen of Festivals'^ 
is the Easter offering'. The ideal offering for this great day 
is the devotion to God of the money value of all our self- 
denials of Lent. Another ennobling motive finds expression 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 261 

ill a thank offering at Easter. If you have received a signal 
token of God's goodness during the past year, ask yourself 
how thankful you are — what per cent of your capital 'i What 
per cent of your income ? 

In this Diocese there is canonical offering on Easter day 
for the endowment of the Episcopate. This will be observed 
of course ; but another offering will be called for — to pay the 
Church debt. The two objects will be separately designated 
in the check of the contributor, or in envelopes to be used for 
that purpose. When the present Yestry came into office, last 
spring, they found a debt of $7,000 on the parish ; $4,000 of 
it secured by mortgage, and paying 10 per cent interest, $3,- 
000 payable on demand. The Vestry borrowed $7,000 at 
8 per cent and paid off all other debts. This loan w^as made 
on four years' time; $1,000 due next April, and $2,000 each 
succeeding year until paid. The Vestry took the loan on 
this time out of abundant caution ; but with the prosperous 
year we have had, and the bright outlook for the State, the 
city, and the parish, there is no need of this delay. W^e can 
pay off the whole $7,000 this spring and be done with the in- 
cubus. This debt stands in the way of so many things that 
we ought to do that it ought to be sw^ept out of the way. This 
parish is on the march, and ought not to tolerate any impedi- 
ment. After the debt is paid w^e must buy back those pews 
that were sold, and then all the seats in Christ Church will 
be made free. Then will follow the establishment of the 
parish hospital, the building of St. PauFs and St. John's 
Chapels, the Boys' Academy, the enlargement of the Sunday 
School room, the Rectory and the chime of bells; after that, 
we shall contribute two or three thousand dollars a year to 
the fund for the endowment of the Episcopate. 

]^ow, we can't have all that good work hindered by this 
pitiful debt of $7,000. It is less than $15 apiece for the com- 
municants of the parish. There are, to be sure, some who 
can't pay $15, but there are twice as many who can each pay 
more than that. Let us pay off the debt, have the Church 
consecrated, and sing an ardent Te Deum. 

18 — 



262 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

REPORT OF CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK, 

TO THE SIXTEENTH COUNCIL OF THE 

DIOCESE OF ARKANSAS. 

From April 19, 1887, to April 11, 1888— 

Number of families 331 

Number of communicants 508 

Number of souls 1,628 

BajDtisms — 

Infants 40 

Adults 17 



Total 



bi 



Confirmations 38 

Marriages 7 

Burials 18 

Sunday Schools — 

Teachers 41 

Pupils 365 

Total 405 

OFFERINGS. 

PAROCHIAL. 

Salary of Rector $ 2,332.90 

Rent of Rectory 587.50 

Salary of assistant minister (seven months) 493.35 

Communion alms 333.20 

Church carpet and furniture 1,318.00 

Church building and debt 3,804.79 

Insurance on Church 498.15 

Other parish expenses 1,402.32 

Total $10,770.21 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 263 

DIOCESAN. 

Council assessment $ 160.00 

Episcopate fund 72.49 

Diocesan missions 82. i 3 

Fund for widows and orphans of deceased clergy . . 10.70 



Total $ 325.92 

BEYOND THE DIOCESE. 

Domestic Missions — Missionary box, $160; cash, 

$109.09 $ 269.09 

Foreign Missions 100.78 

Society for Conversion of the Jews 13.50 

American Church Building Fund 12.60 

'New York Bible and Prayer Book Society 10.00 

University of the South 50.00 



Total $ 455.9 



Aggregate $11,552.45 

Value of Church property $60,000.00 



A RETROSPECT. 



This first day of September closes the second year of the 
present Rector's charge of Christ Church, Little Rock. It 
may be profitable for us to reflect upon the outcome of these 
two years of work and prayer. 

What have we — minister and laymen — done ? and what 
remains to be done ? The former is very little indeed, com- 
pared to the latter. Still there is no occasion for discourage- 
ment. We think all feel that these have been eventful years. 
Perhaps no parish and no Rector ever had the extraordinary 
experience we passed through during the winter and spring 
of 1887. But we do not wish to recall anything painful. On 



264 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Easter Monday^ 1887, the Hector's administration was sus- 
tained by an overwlielming majority of the parishioners, and 
was again indorsed on Easter Monday last by a practically 
unanimous expression of approval and affection. We believe 
that this is now one of the most united and harmonious 
parishes in the country. 

Within these two years our magnificent Church edifice 
has been completed, including the finishing of the basement 
for Sunday School rooms. The old Chapel has been recon- 
structed for a Rectory, making it one of the most desirable 
residences in the city. A valuable property — the Camp- 
bell ite Chapel — has been purchased for our West End Mis- 
sion. So much for the material increase, not stopj)ing to 
mention things of minor value, like Chancel furniture., the 
organ for St. Paul's, the bank safe for the parish office, etc. 
But we must add to things material the total of money raised 
in the parish for C^hurch work, building and debt, amounting 
to over $23,000. 

Far more important than the above mentioned signs of 
progress, is the record of living increase. During this same 
time eighty persons have been baptized and sixty-four con- 
firmed ; the list of communicants has increased from 329 
to 532, the average attendance at the Sunday services has 
doul:)led, and the number of Sunday School ])upils has nearly 
quadrupled; in the way of increased organizations, two mis- 
sion Sunday Schools have been started, and one of them has 
proved remarkably successful. The Young Ladies' Guild 
has been reorganized for the special work of supporting the 
assistant minister, and conducting the Little Each Church- 
man ; a chapter of St. Andrew's Brotherhood has been formed 
for work amongst young men ; a missionary society, composed 
of the communicants of the Church, has been made the very 
heart of the parish; and monthly sociables are held for social 
intercourse and the enjoyment of music and literature. Be 
it noted that these sociables are not used to raise money, the 
whole system of fairs, suppers, concerts, et id om.ne genus for 
bribing people to serve God, having been religiously abandoned 
two vears affo. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 265 

But after all, these signs of iniprovenient that can be put 
into figures and minutes of meetings, are not the most signifi- 
cant elements of parochial prosperity; the spirituality of a 
parish is not susceptible of statistical statement, but for all 
that it is the real life of a parish, without which, all other 
signs of vitality are as the contortions of a galvanized corpse. 
We are almost afraid to speak of improvement in this regard, 
yet we think it not wrong to say that there has been a marked 
elevation of the religious tone of the parish. 

We know there was a strong element of spirituality in 
the parish two years ago, but we know also that the predomi- 
nant character of the parish at that time was a rejiroach to 
Christianity. But let all that pass, it makes one heartsick 
to remember it. Thank God, it is no longer prima facie evi- 
dence that a person has no religion to belong to Christ Church, 
Little Rock. We do not boast of these things ; we allude to 
these tokens of God's blessing on the labors of minister and 
people onh^ to thank Ilim for His mercy and goodness, and as 
an incentive to better work in the future. What is that work 
for the future ? First of all duties^ we must raise our stan- 
dard of personal holiness still higher, and as a part of the 
means to that blessed end, as well as a regard for the direct 
objects of Christian duty, we must pay off the balance of that 
wretched debt; we must build a Chapel for St. John's Mis- 
sion ; we must organize a Sunday School in Argenta ; we must 
establish a Church school to prepare boys for college ; we must 
build and endow a hospital, and avc must raise $10,000 as 
our share of the Episco])ate fund. 

After that we shall find plenty more to do. In the mean- 
time let us thank God that we are a united band, full of hope 
and courage. 



The Chancel Society is doing its sacred work diligently 
and with reverence and good taste. The arrangements for 
the celebration of the Holy Communion and the care of the 
vestments show that this society deserves the injunction, "Let 
all tilings be done decentlv and in order." 



266 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

The sociables suspended during Lent will be resumed. 
The next will be held on Thursday night, 19th of April. 
There were nearly 100 in attendance at the last sociable, but 
we hope to see three times that many after all our members 
learn how delightful these gatherings are. 



The Vestry have had several interesting meetings during 
the past month. They are doing their part nobly in the 
matter of the Church debt, and if the whole $7,000 is not paid 
off at Easter it will not be their fault. The Rector takes this 
occasion to thank the Vestry for their cordial and generous 
support during the past year. 



The choir has laid the congregation under obligations for 
good Church music. We do not mean to say that it "tickles 
the ears of the groundlings," nor do we claim that it is "equal 
to a show." We say it is good Church music; that is to say, 
the congregation is led in devout praise, skillfully and 
reverently. 



The Young Ladies' Guild are doing good, solid work. 
Besides doing all the clerk work of the Little Rock Church- 
man, they raise over $500 a year towards the current expenses 
of the parish, not counting such little things as the $45 cliair 
which they have just bought for the Chancel. The Rector 
hopes that the young ladies may not work themselves to death. 



The Vestry of Christ Church is certainly one of varied 
elements ; amongst the eleven Vestrymen, eight vocations, 
both political parties and three shades of Churchmanship are 
represented. !N"otwithstanding these differences, they are 
a unit in their love of the Church, their devotion to the in- 
terests of the parish, and their cordial support of the Rector. 



The Ladies' Aid Society, at their last meeting, resolved 
to use the funds now in hand, some $150, to pay for the cover- 
ing and cushioning of the kneeling stools, as soon as the work 
i"^ completed. The missionary box which they are preparing 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 267 

for a missionary in Western Texas is coming on finely. This 
venerable society lias taken on new life. We feared at one 
time that their purchasing the carpet (it cost $1,125) had 
exhausted the Ladies' Aid Society. 



The Missionary Society is a thoroughly organized, com- 
pact body; there is a steady advance all along the line. 
Through the labors of the members of this society objects of 
charity are relieved, new Church families are found and 
visited, and strangers haying no ecclesiastical belonging are 
brought under religious influence. Besides an interest in 
Diocesan, Domestic and Foreign Missions is constantly culti- 
vated. The monthly dues are 50 cents for men, 20 cents for 
married ladies, and 10 cents for single ladies, which are 
devoted to missions. Every communicant of the parish ought 
to belong to this society. 



The Sunday Schools are doing remarkably well. The 
Kector catechises each in turn ; St. John's on the second Sun- 
day in the month, the Chapel Simday School on the third 
Sunday, and St. Paul's on the fourth. The last catechising 
elicited unmistakable evidence of good work on the part of the 
officers and teachers. The three Sunday Schools will have 
their annual festival at Christ Church on Easter evening at 
4 o'clock. St. Paul's will occupy the north transept, St. 
John's the south transept, and the Chapel Sunday School the 
front of the nave. The congregation will be welcome to the 
rear of the nave. We think the exercises will be interesting 
to vounff and old. 



May, 1888. 



PARISH DOIXGS. 



The Easter offerings amounted to $2,259, wdiich is pretty 
good; but next Easter we shall more than double that. 



268 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

The Chancel Society deserves great credit for its ex- 
quisite decoration of the Church for Easter; and the regu- 
larity with which all its work is done, all the more acceptable 
because not overdone. 



A few weeks ago the parish had the honor of a visit from 
Archdeacon Eortin, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Rector 
begged him to occupy the pulpit whilst here, but his health 
would not permit. 

The Guild is as "busy as a bee-hive ;" it is making a suc- 
cess of the Little Bock ChurcJiman, and is preparing to do a 
larger work than ever, of which many will hear very soon. 
No work in the parish has borne better fruit than that of the 
Young Ladies' Guild. 



The Ladies' Aid Society paid off the debt for the kneel- 
ing stools, about $150, and finished and shipped "the box" 
for the missionary in Texas. We verily believe the prepara- 
tion of that box did our ladies as much good as the contents 
of the box will do the missionary and his family. 



The choir is constantly improving. Our music on 
Easfer day was most appro])riate and edifying. We have 
never heard music in Church that so thoroughly fulfilled the 
purpose of Church music — to lift up the heart in gratitude to 
God. The show feature was severely absent. Of the 800 
or 900 souls that crowded the Church, we hope not one came 
to be entertained. 

The organist at the first service held in the new Church 
on Easter day, 1887, was Professor Brebegh. The choir 
v/as composed of ]\riss ]\rarve Rumbough, Miss Bessie Can- 
trell, ]\riss Sophie Field (Mrs. Andrew Hunter), Miss Susie 
Carroll, so])ranos ; Miss Hallie Jabine (Mrs. Sayle), Miss 
Georgie Woodruff and Miss ]S'annie Field, altos; Messrs. 
George Martin, D. H. Cantrell and Dunbar Pope, tenors ; 
Messrs. Llenrv ]\r:ix\v('ll. and Otev Clark, bassos. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 269 

We congTatulate the parish upon the re-election of the 
Vestry on Easter Monday. It is evident that the congrega- 
tion is practically unanimous in the opinion that the affairs 
of the parish are in good hands. Certainly it is a good spec- 
tacle — a V^estry of eleven devout Christians, exemplary citi- 
zens, and everyone the warm, personal friend of the Rector. 
Happy is the parish and happy is the Rector thus situated. 



By far the most successful sociable we have yet had was 
that of the 19th. We never saw a large company (there were 
about 100 present) seem to enjoy rational and wholesome 
pleasure more thoroughly. When these sociables were pro- 
posed some predicted their failure. "Who ever heard," some 
said, ''of a Church sociable not intended for raising money?" 
Others remarked, "The idea of a party without either danc- 
ing or refreshments !" Well, strange things do happen. 



St. Andrew's Brotherhood is steadily growing in mem- 
bership and interest. The formation of another chapter of 
older young men is talked of. This society meets every 
Tuesday night in the parish office. A passage of Scripture 
is studied, a portion of some literary work is read and dis- 
cussed, and then the members engage in conversation about 
the work of the society — that is, inducing young men to come 
to Church. There is no cant, no humbug, no axe-grinding 
about the Brotherhood. 



The Sunday School festival on Easter evening was pro- 
nounced a success. There were nearly 400 children. When 
the Mission Sunday Schools marched in, 150 strong, there 
was some surprise and much joy amongst some of the old 
folks, who "didn't know that this work amounted to much." 

As each class came up and planted its banner and pre- 
sented its offerings, all felt that this work had been blessed. 
Each banner had a letter on it, these letters, when placed, 
making the sentence, "Children of God, being children of the 
resurrection." 



270 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

The Rector is very grateful to the officers and teachers 
for their faithful year's work. 

The building of those Chapels is now in order. We think 
we know the names of the two men who are going to give us 
lots to build them on. 



Makch, 1888. 

THE BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW. 

The society known as the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, is 
making rapid advances in the increase of its numbers and in 
the good work accomplished. This is an organization of young 
men in the Church for the purpose of inducing young men to 
attend Church, and for the mutual improvement of the mem- 
bers. The assistant minister of Christ Church proposes to 
organize a "chapter" of this society in Little Rock. We 
heartily commend the movement. 



THE VESTRY ELECTIOK 

On Easter Monday, April 2, the annual election for 
Vestrymen of Christ Church will be held. The present efficient 
Vestry ought to be re-elected. They are all good men and 
faithful to their trust. There is perfect harmony between all 
the members of the Vestry and the Rector. Mutual confi- 
dence and mutual support have characterized every meeting 
and every act, and as a consequence the parish has enjoyed 
unprecedented prosperity, temporal and spiritual. 

The income of the parish since this Vestry came into 
office last Easter Monday has been $5^087. This does not 
include $1,125 paid by the Ladies' Aid Society for the carpet, 
about $400 raised by the Young Ladies' Guild, about $50 con- 
tributed by the Missionary Society, and the Sunday School 
offerings, amounting to over $200. The Easter offerings will 
add several thousand dollars to the year's income. Of the 



THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 271 

$5,087 already received, parish expenses consumed $3,557 ; 
the balance, $1,530, was expended on the Church edifice and 
grounds, the interest on the debt. 

The financial success of the parish is largely due to the 
efficiency of the treasurer, Major John D. Adams. 

If the congregation want this Vestry to serve another year 
they ought to come out Easter Monday and say so. We give 
the names of the Vestry beltnv : 

R. H. Parham, Jr. 

W. W. Smith. 

John D. Adams. 

Dr. W. A. Cantrell. 

Tv. L. Goodrich. 

Dr. L. R. Stark. 

R. J. Polk. 

G. S. Brack. 

C. H. Dolbeer. 

F. D. Clark. 

J. H. Haney. 



"HOA^OR TO WHOM HOXOR IS DUE." 

The parish owes a debt of gratitude to Major John D. 
Adams and Mr. R. L. Goodrich for liberal contributions to 
objects outside the regular expenses of the parish. Their 
offerings are always made with the characteristic modesty of 
gentlemen. ]^o parade, no trumpeting, no bargaining for 
adulation and advertisement. 



The Rectory rapidly approaches completion ; the Rector 
expects to move into it the 1st of October. In the next num- 
ber of the ChurchmoM we shall give a description of the house. 



The parish is under obligations to IMajor R. IT. Parham 
for his faithful services as lay reader, especially during the 
Rector's vacation. Only an experienced clergyman knows 
how to appreciate a character like jVPajor Parham's. 



272 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

May, 1888. 

The assistant minister of Christ Churchy Rev. John E. 
H. Galbraith, has organized a chapter of St. Andrew's 
Brotherhood. The study of the Bible, mutual improvement, 
and a Christian influence amongst young men are the objects 
of this societv. Most commendable. 



AucxUST, 1888. 

CHRIST CHURCHj LITTLE ROCK. 

An assistant minister has been called, but has not yet 
accepted. It will be hard to fill Mr. Galbraith's place. 



The sociables and the meetings of the Ladies' Aid Society 
and St. Andrew's Brotherhood are suspended until October, 
but the Missionary Society, the Vestry, the Guild, and Chan- 
cel Society are like Tennyson's brook. 



The basement of the Church being finished, was occupied 
by the Parish Sunday School for the first time on the 22d of 
July. There is one large comfortable room opening into the 
cosy i)arish ofllce, which will be used for the infant class. 
These rooms are a solid improvement upon the old Chapel. 



During the past few weeks there has been quite an exodus 
of Christ Church people to the mountains and the sea shore. 
The attendance at the services has consequently fallen off. 
The largest congregation in July numbered only about four 
hundred. 



The construction of the Rectory is going forward satis- 
factorily. When completed it will be one of the most com- 
modious and pleasant residences in the city. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 273 

ST. PAUL'S MISSION. 

Our West End Mission has now a local habitation, as 
well as a name. The building once used by the Disciples of 
Christ (commonly called Campbellites) as a house of worship 
has been bought and is now St. Paul's Mission Chapel. The 
title of the property is vested in the Vestry of Christ Church, 
but will be conveyed to the future Vestry of St. Paul's when 
the mission becomes a parish, which evolution the Rector and 
Vestry will cordially encourage. The situation of this 
chapel is admirabl_y adapted for the work it is designed to do. 
It is removed about as far as possible from any other house 
of worship, and begins its work on this spot with a good 
nucleus carried there from the old temporary quarters of the 
mission. Those quarters had been a barroom — one of those 
"terrors to the neighborhood" — it now becomes a drug store. 
So we have converted this building as well, we trust, as some 
of those who came to our ministrations. 



September. 1889. 
THE ARKANSAS CHURCHMAN. 

The anniversary of the beginning of a minister's work 
seems to be a favorite time for review of the past. The 
present Rector of Christ Church took charge of the parish 
September 1, 1886. During these three years the Church 
edifice has been finished, the Sunday School room made ready 
for use, and the Rectory constructed; 113 persons have been 
baptized, and 120 have been confirmed; the net increase of 
communicants is 228, the average congregation has trebled, 
and the offerings have amounted to over $35,000. The parish 
is united, active and growing. 

How different the outcome of these three years of the 
"new regime" has been from what was predicted by some 
people who did not JiHOii' ih<ii ihe Episcopal Church faur/Jif 
religion. 



274 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

What a storm was raised when the new Rector did away 
with the fantastic show business in the choir, put a stop to 
suppers, lotteries and fandangoes as means of raising money 
for the Church, and preached the necessity of piety in Church 
members. Many people predicted that ''if the Rector went 
on with these novelties he would soon be preaching to empty 
pews, and have no salary." 

Thank God, that horrid nightmare of irreligion in Christ 
Church is past. No one now speaks of this j^arish as a 
"social club for Sunday amusement." 



ARKANSAS CHURCHMAN. 

October, 1888. 

The hour for the meetings of the Guild, the Ladies' Aid 
Society and the Sunday School Officers and Teachers, is 
changed from 5 p. m. to -1:30 p. m., and the meetings of the 
Chancel Society from 4:30 p. m. to 4 p. m. See list of 
meetings. 



On Sunday, September 16, St. John's Mission was re- 
opened in the new quarters, on the corner of Tenth and Welch 
streets. The following Sunday there were seven teachers 
and forty-five pupils present ; and a most cheering interest 
was luanifested. 



Mr. E. M. Humphreys has become assistant to the Rec- 
tor of Christ Church. Mr. Humphreys is a Sewanee man, 
and was a postulant for holy orders in the Diocese of Tennes- 
see, but has been transferred to this Diocese, and hopes soon 
to be oi;dained.* Our young brother gives promise of great 
usefulness in the mission work, of which he has already taken 
vigorous hold. The man who fills John Galbraith's place 
has no sinecure. 



*Mr. Humphreys' health compelled him to resign the office. He died not long 
after. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 275 

The Rector wishes 16 express his grateful appreciation 
of the consideration and liberality of the Vestry in the con- 
struction of the new Rectory. They have faithfully carried 
out the loving wishes of the congregation. Particular thanks 
are due the building committee — Major J. D. Adams, Mr. 
C. H. Dolbeer, and Captain J. H. Haney — and more espe- 
cially Captain Haney, who has given his time and skill to 
the planning and supervision of the work. 



The Sociables will hereafter be held on the same night 
upon which the Missionary Society meets. 



Allusion to the gratuitous services of Captain J. H. 
Haney, in the building of the new Rectory, recalls the testi- 
mony of the building committee of the Church edifice in these 
words : 

"Mr. J. H. Haney for five years has superintended the 
work on the building; seen that everything was done in 
accordance with contract and specifications ; rendering ser- 
vices that have certainly lessened the cost of the building 10 
per cent with a faithfulness and love of the work which it 
would be impossible to hire." 

Captain Haney has given to the Church during the past 
seven years at least $5,000 worth of services as civil engineer 
and architect, which is more than any one cash contribution 
to our Church buildings, and in ratio to his financial ability, 
ten times as much as anyone else has given. 

The most beautiful feature of all of Captain Haney's 
valuable service is the fact that it has all been rendered with 
the utmost modesty and delicacy, as if it were all quite a 
matter of course and called for no praise. 



Christ Church, Little Rock, has now a home for its 
Rector, the new Rectory being completed. The outside ap- 
pearance is quaint and unpretentious, giving very little idea 
of the beautiful and commodious interior. Passino- a wide 



276 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

gallery, running the whole length of the front, one enters 
through a heavy panelled door, the reception room, whicli is 
lighted by two windows of ground glass, bordered with tinted 
cathedral glass, and separated from the stairway hall by an 
arch suj^ported by corbels. 

To the right is the beautiful drawing-room, having 
double sliding doors opening from the reception-room, and 
likewise into the study, which comes next. The study is a 
room to suggest sermons on Paradise ; the door opening from 
the hall intimates that it is meant to be easily accessible. 
Behind the study is the pretty guest room, which the Rector 
hopes to have frequently occupied. Beyond this point the 
house widens, and the hall, turning to the right, runs between 
the elegantly finished dining-room and a large, well-lighted 
chamber, behind which is the bathroom, with hot and cold 
water attachments. Across a back hall are two more com- 
fortable bedrooms, surrounded by wide latticed galleries, 
upon which the dining-room also opens, and connecting with 
storeroom, kitchen and servants' room, below which are rooms 
for fuel. Returning to the main hall, we ascend by an artis- 
tic stairway to the second floor. Here we find two pleasant 
rooms, well lighted and ventilated. A china closet, a linen 
closet, and numerous wardrobes complete this model par- 
sonage. 



Here is a general quotation from the Diocesan paper 
called The Diocese of Arlcansas, edited by Rev. Mr. Degen, 
Rector of St. John's Church, Fort Smith,' Ark., 1888: 

CHRISTMAS IX ARKANSAS. 

"The glorious Feast of the Nativity was celebrated in all 
the parishes and missions of the Diocese with even more than 
usual care and elaborate preparations." * * * 

"At (Christ Church, Little Rock, the usual Sunday ser- 
vices were held, the Chancel being a]:)propriately dressed. The 
Sunday School festival was held in the Chapel on the Feast of 
the Holy Innocents. We clip the following account of it 
from the Arl-anms Life: 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 277 

"At the Chapel of Christ Church last Wednesday, at 6 
p. m. there was a threefold feast presented for eye, ear and 
palate. A large number of spectators with the children and 
teachers were seated in the jDart of the room near the entrance. 
An open space beyond was reserved for games, and at the 
extreme end on a low platform were arranged four tables ex- 
tending the entire width of the room, from north to south. 
These tables were tastefully laid out with dainty napery, 
china and glass, and bountifully supplied with cakes, jellies, 
creams, fruits and nuts. The happy faces, the sheen of light 
on the crimson carpet and the warmth aroused a pleasant sen- 
sation among the assembly. The exercises opened with a 
Christmas hymn, Miss Harrell presiding at the organ, after 
which the Rev. Mr. Galbraith, superintendent, made a happy 
extempore address. The Rector, the Rev. Mr. Carnahan, 
then read a poem from the Rev. Phillips Brooks, sent to him 
by an absent teacher. The classes were called in order by 
the Rector and conducted to the tables for the feast, the infant 
classes first who afforded a charming picture as their cherub 
faces a})peared just above the surface of the tables. A staff 
of teachers. Miss Georgie Woodruff", Miss Merrick, Misses 
Matthews, Misses Carroll, Misses Field, and Mrs. Hayman, 
served in dainty white aprons, supplying 150 children with a 
delicious supper. After these were all satisfied the adults 
were invited by the Rector to partake. Afterwards "the 
basketsfull" were set aside to be distributed to the sick and 
destitute the next day. Games followed, and, though there 
was an exuberance of glee, there was no breach of decorum. 
At 9 o'clock all dispersed, feeling that the festival had been 
no misnomer, but a joyful anniversary to all in attendance." 



January^ 1889. 
DIOCESAN NEWS. 

CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK. 

Christmas and Christmas week were filled with joy and 
brightness in this parish. The service on Christmas morning 

19 — 



278 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

was well attended by deV'Out worshippers, attracted not by 
advertisements, nor by shows, nor by any shifty vanities, but 
by the manifest desire to worship God and hear His word 
preached. 

Thursday the children of the three Sunday Schools had 
their festival in the basement of the C'hurch, and they had a 
"grand time." 

On Friday St. John's Mission had their Christmas tree, 
which proved to be wonderfully fruitful of presents, sweet- 
meats and delight. 

St. Paul's Mission Sunday School had their festival on 
Saturday, and matched St. John's in all manner of innocent 
pleasure for the children. 

The Rev. Mr. Galbraith and the devoted officers and 
teachers of the three schools deserve much praise for their 
faithful labors in these nurseries of the Church. 



Besides the parish and mission work, Mr. Carnahan and 
Mr. Galbraith laid the foundation for a Church school for 
boys, called Christ Church Academy, January, 1889, corner 
of Fifth and Scott streets. Prepares boys for college or 
business. Rev. Wallace Carnahan, principal ; Rev. J. E. H. 
Galbraith, teacher of Latin and Greek; Mr. Palin Saxby, 
teacher of English and the sciences. The school work begun 
by the Rev. Mr. Galbraith last September is now to be en- 
larged and strengthened. The purpose is to build up an 
academic institution in Little Rock upon the model of the 
Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Va., which Pi-ofessor 
L. M. Blackford has made so famous. Tuition, $15 per 
quarter (three calendar months). For admission apply at 
the Rectory, No. 509 Scott street, Little Rock, Ark. 



ARKANSAS CHURCHMAN. 

April, 1889. 

Apropos of the offerings on Easter day being devoted to 
the Church debt, a few words of exi)lanation may not be amiss. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 279 

especially as efforts seem to have been made to misrepresent 
the facts. We understand that it has been intimated bj ene- 
mies of the parish that the j)resent Vestrj are not good 
financiers — that the revenue of the parish is not equal to the 
expenses, and that the parish is getting deeper into debt. The 
simple facts are these: The revenue of the parish not only 
covers the regular exjjenses of the parish, including the mis- 
sion work of St. Paul's and St. John's Chapels, but pays the 
interest on the old debt — over $400 a year — and $700 a year 
on the building association loan, which was negotiated to con- 
struct the Rectory ; an arrangement which stopped the pay- 
ment of $600 a year for Rectory rent. So we see that so far 
from the revenue of the jjarish falling short of its expenses, 
the revenue meets the regular expenses, the interest on the 
.old debt and is paying for the Rectory. 

As to the debt, let it be remembered that when the present 
Vestry came into office Easter Monday, 1887, there was sup- 
posed to be a debt of $7,000 on the Church, i. e., a mortgage 
debt of $4,000, drawing 10 per cent interest, and floating 
debts amounting to $3,000. The new Vestry at once took up 
that amount Avitli a new loan at 8 per cent interest. No 
sooner had they done so than bills began to pour in that had 
not been taken account of, because there was no record of 
them ; which unexpected bills amounted to nearly $2,000. In 
May, 1888, an installment of the new loan — $1,000 — fell due. 
The Easter offerings, amounting to $2,400, was used to pay 
that installment, and the balance was used together with a 
part of the parish revenue to pay off the aforementioned unex- 
pected bills, namely, $2,000. The loan negotiated to build 
the Rectory proved to be insufficient by nearly $1,000, and 
finishing the basement for the Sunday School cost nearly 
$1,000; this amount, about $2,000, was borrowed on short 
time, and is to be paid the 1st of May; at that time another 
installment of the 8 per cent loan falls due — $2,000— so that 
the amount we ought to raise from the Easter offerings this 
year is $4,000. Every dollar that has been borrowed by the 
present Vestry has substantial im])rovements to show for it, 
or receipts for payment of parish debts contracted before the 



280 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

present Vestry caiue into office. If the whole debt were paid, 
includino- the Rectory loan, the present annual revenue of the 
parish (exclusive of Easter offerings J^, would exceed its ex- 
penses by more than $1,000. The administration of the 
present Vestry has been characterized by diligence, wisdom 
and integrity. The Rector, Vestry and congregation are in 
perfect harmony, and the parish is enjoying unprecedented 
prosperity. 



MR. CARXAHAX'S VIEWS O^ HIGH AXD LOW 

CHURCH. 

ARKAXSAS CIIUi?CHMA?s^ APRIL, 1889. 

Perhaps there is no question relating to the Church that 
clergymen are asked more frequently than this : " What is 
the difference between High Church and Low Church views ?" 
and occasionally the inquiry extends to ''Broad Church." 

It is no wonder that the average lajmian has hazy notions 
about these different shades of C^hurchmanship, for some of 
their theological guides use these terms very loosely. The 
names of the different schools of thought in the Church ought 
to be accurately descriptive ; loose nomenclature is at once a 
cause and a sign of loose thinking. 

It is admitted by the great body of our clergy and edu- 
cated laity that there is a place in the Church for three pretty 
distinct schools of thought, with innumerable intermediate 
shades of opinion ; and we believe that it is also the conviction 
of most Churchmen that there is an extreme wing of each of 
these ecclesiastical parties that has not a legitimate place in 
our Church. 

The essential difference between the old-fashioned High 
Churchman and the loyal Low Churchman can be marked by 
emphasizing different parts of the same statement of the truth. 

The reii'ular Low Churchman (who prefers to be called 
Evangelical Churchman) accepts all that the protestant High 
Churchman claims as essential, but would lay his emphasis 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 281 

upon the necessity of a truly converted heart and the import- 
ance of a personal relation of the individual soul to God ; he 
would also lay stress upon justification by faith, as the great 
central doctrine of religion. 

The High Churchman proper, would accept all this that 
the Low Churchman makes so much of, but he would empha- 
size the value of the sacraments as means of grace ; and set a 
higher value upon the Apostolic ministry than his Low 
Church brother. 

The orthodox Broad Churchman accepts all that both the 
High Churchman and the Low Churchman hold ; though he 
does not emphasize any of it, but seeks to strengthen Chris- 
tianity by the aid of science and philosophy. He is very 
lenient to all heterodoxy, and dogmatic about nothing. 

]^ow, we repeat, that the great body of Churchmen, cleric 
and lay, readily acknowledge that these are legitimate differ- 
ences of opinion that Episcopalians may hold ; being different 
aspects of the same truth; concerning which men may differ, 
and yet be all loyal Churchmen. But there is, as already 
said, an ultra wing of each of these schools of thought. The 
extreme Broad Churchman eliminates entirely the super- 
natural from religion ; in a word, he is a rationalist. The 
ultra Low Churchmen nearly all followed the late Bishop 
Cummins into his little schism ; the very few that are left in 
our Church differ in no particular, in doctrine or practice, 
from the Cumminsites. The ultra Low Churchman thinks 
there are "Romanizing germs" in the Prayer Book ; the con- 
servative Low Churchman considers the Prayer Book the "bul- 
wark of ]irotestantism." The ultra High Churchmen, com- 
monly called Eitualists, affect the name of "Catholic Church- 
men," or "Advanced Churchmen," which is lucus a non 
Jucendo, for this faction is the most un-Catholic and the most 
reactionary of all Churclimen. If we were an authority in 
philology we should call them Romoids. 

The Ritualists fto use their commonest designation) be- 
lieve in private confession to a priest, in order to personal, 
judicial absolution, M^hich they say is necessary for the edify- 
ing reception of the Holv Communion, and for the production 



282 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

of a highly spiritual life. Thej teach a theory of the 
Lord's Supper which is distinguishable from the Roman doc- 
trine of transubstantiation onl}^ by expert metaphysicians; 
indeed, some Ritualists candidly accept that doctrine fully. 
They call the Holy Communion ''Mass/' claiming that the 
ofSciating "Priest" offers a real sacrifice in that sacrament. 
They have requiem masses for the repose of souls, they believe 
in prayers for the dead. Some few Ritualists believe in the 
celibacy of the clergy (without practicing it). Indeed most 
of them seem to accept every doctrine of the CUiurch of Rome 
except the "Immaculate conception" of the Virgin Mary, and 
the Infallibility of the Pope, whose ''rightful supremacy," 
however, they sweetly concede, to the great amusement of 
Romanists. 

It is needless to say that old-fashioned, protestant High 
Churchmen repudiate the Ritualists as having no relation 
whatever to their position. The Ritualists return the compli- 
ment by rejecting the name of High Churchman, except when 
they want to deceive some one as to their real views, then they 
are apt to wear a High Church mask, doubtless with a wry 
face. 

How any honest man, especially a clergyman, can hold 
the views of any of these extremists, and remain in the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Church, in peace of mind, is an ethical mystery. 
It is to be feared that many of these men have paltered with 
the truth as taught by our Church until a false casuistry has 
destroyed their honesty. 



AXGLO-SAXTOA^ CHURCHMAK 

1890. 

SACERDOTAL CASTE. 

It is a bad sign of the times that the clergy are so impa- 
tient of the influence of the laity in the Church. 

It is not merely dislike of the "lay pope" in the parish ; 
that is too small a factor to account for such a general feeling. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 283 

It is not, in all cases, a righteous zeal for the missionary duty 
of the (Jhurch, which chafes under the parochial narrowness 
of many laymen. If this were all, the drift we speak of would 
be occasion for rejoicing. 

It is the growing caste feeling amongst the clergy that 
lies at the bottom of impatience with lay influence. It is the 
disposition on the part of some of the clergy to assert preroga- 
tive for the sake of prerogative, a feeling which may be ex- 
pressed in clerical language like this : "You laymen must 
do as I say, because I am ordained." 

Now this seems to us a false and pernicious attitude for 
the clergy. Truly, the ministry is a chieftainship, a chief- 
tainship in things spiritual ; but a position that can be held 
and exercised to the edilication of the Church only by the 
personal power and moral worth of tlie clergyman. The 
army oflicer's commission gives him the right to command, 
but no officer can command successfully unless his courage 
and skill command the confidence of the troops. 

The worst feature of the revival of priestcraft and priest 
caste in the Church is the decay of those qualities amongst 
the clergy that command the following of the laitj- without 
sacerdotal self-assertion. 

The clergyman who lacks personal qualities of leadership 
falls back upon prerogative. This, we say, is the worst of it. 
The prevalent clerical jealousy of lay power is a sign of decay- 
ing manhood and natural chieftainship amongst the clergy. 
The cure for a blacksmith's waning muscle is not a heavier 
hammer, but the toning up of his health. 

Clergymen of brains, will and piety have no need to 
enqihasize clerical prerogative, and clerical weaklings shall 
emphasize it in vain. This is the nineteenth, not the thir- 
teenth centurv. 



The children of Rev. Wallace Carnahan and Mary S. 
Hart, his wife, are Mary r^imline. Hart, Emelyn Louise, 
Annie Sue, Wallace, Jr., and Barron. The last named was 
born in Alabama, and died there when thirteen months old. 



284 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

From the foregoing extracts from the Church Journal 
it will be seen that Mr. Carnahan was a model of execu- 
tive strength. His eye kept guard over every department 
of parochial duty. He believed in the influence of the 
Sunday School. The men and women who were to con- 
duet human intelligence to its full splendor there obtained 
their inspiration, he thought, and the infant soul was there 
awakened to the sense of divine things. At the great fes- 
tivals of the Advent and the Resurrection he spared no effort 
to impress the signal truths of Christianity on the minds of 
the children. With texts committed and banners, bearing holy 
legends, that stamped themselves on eye and brain, he led the 
youthful soldiers onward in the footsteps of the Great Captain 
of Salvation. One beautiful design on an Easter festival 
was a huge butterfly, six feet in height and seven feet from 
tip to tip of the wings when expanded. It was made in adjus- 
table sections of woven wire into a frame. Each teacher took 
a section and her scholars provided the flowers with which to 
deck it; these were shaded in all the rich colors of a natural 
butterfly, which was closely imitated. At the festival each 
class was called to the Chancel to deposit its mite box. A 
member carried the floral section, which was received by the 
superintendent and put in place on the skeleton frame. The 
spectators watched intently as the butterfly expanded in form 
and beauty, until at length it stood complete, a lovely emblem 
of the resurrection. The Eector then made a lecture, explain, 
ing the process of growth from the larval state of the cater- 
pillar to the glorious perfection of the winged butterfly ; a 
miracle of T^ature, which signified to us the great miracle of 
the resurrection of the 1)0(U to the life immortal. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 285 

REPOKT OF CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK, 

TO THE SIXTEENTH COUisXTL OF THE 

DIOCESE OF ARKANSAS. 

From April 19, 1887, to April 11, 1888 — 

Number of families 331 

Number of communicants 508 

Number of souls 1,628 

Baptisms — 

Infants 40 

Adults IT 



Total 57 

Confirmations 38 

Marriages 7 

Burials 18 

Sunday Schools — 

Teachers 41 

Pupils 365 



1 otal 405 

OFFERINGS. 

PAROCHIAL. 

Salary of Rector $ 2,332.90 

Rent of Rectory 587.50 

Salary of assistant minister (seven months) 493.35 

Communion alms 333.20 

Church carpet and furniture 1,318.00 

Church building and debt 3,804.79 

Insurance on Church 498.15 

Other parish expenses 1,402.32 

Total $10,770.21 



286' THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

DIOCESAN. 

Council assessment $ 160.00 

Episcopate fund 72.49 

Diocesan missions 82.73 

Fund for widows and orphans of deceased clergy. . 10.70 



Total $ 325.92 

BEYOND THE DIOCESE. 

Domestic Missions — Missionary box, $160; cash 

$109.09 ". $ 269.09 

Foreign Missions 100.78 

Society for Conversion of the Jews 13.50 

American Church Building Fund 12.60 

New York Bible and Prayer Book Society 10.00 

University of the South . ' 50.00 



Total $ 455.97 



Aggregate $11,552.45 

Value of Church property $60,000.00 



The name of our faithful Senior Warden, Major R. H, 
Parham, has been suggested by some of the secular press for 
the office of State Superintendent of Education. We do not 
suppose he would accept it upon the pitiful salary attached to 
the office, but the State would indeed be fortunate to secure 
his services. A ripe scholar, a practical educator and an in- 
corruptible citizen, he is eminently qualified for the position. 
We should prefer to see Major Parham President of the State 
University, but that his election to that post would take him 
out of this parish. 



Our estimable Junior Warden, the Hon. W. W. Smith, 
has gone with his family to Florida to fortify his health, 
which has become somewhat impaired. We wish him speedy 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 287 

restoration and return, Christ Church can't spare Judge 
Smith. 



One of the most powerful sermons delivered by Rev. Mr. 
Carnahan during his incumbency was that on the text : "The 
blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are 
cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the 
poor have the gospel prxached to them." — Matthew xi. 5. 

In this grand climax of priestly functions, laid down 
by the Master himself to John's disciples, Dr. Carnahan found 
the keynote of his ministerial work. The poor had his un- 
failing attention. As punctually as the Holy Communion 
was celebrated on the first Sunday of each month, he an- 
nounced in direct, ringing tones from the Chancel, "the alms 
are for the poor." The offering was always the largest 
during the month, for the members of the congregation who 
were unable to go out in search of the poor, felt that their 
alms were sure to be distributed where most needed. ISTo 
demand of the Church was ever allowed to divert this fund ; 
and when a fifth Sunday occurred in the month, the offering 
was invariably set aside for some charitable purpose and so 
announced. Did not the regular expenses of the Church 
suffer by this plan ? J^ever. They were increased by it. 
Of that Mr. Carnahan never harbored a doubt. Among those 
who so deeply lamented his withdrawal from Christ Church 
Parish the poor formed the most sincere band of mourners. 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TOWARD THE PAY- 
MENT OF THE DEBT ON CHRIST CHURCH, 
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., 1802. 

The Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, issue an an- 
nual statement of the Easter offerings for the Church debt. 
The following sums were given on Easter, 1892. When the 
whole debt shall have been paid, a statement will be printed 



288 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

showing the total amount received from each contributor 

toward the building of the Church and the payment of the 
debt. 

Adams, John D $ 10.00 

Adams, Sam B 50.00 

Adams, Mrs. S. B 10.00 

Adams, Mrs. Elvira 50.00 

Alley, Miss Fannie 1.00 

Amsbary, D. H 2.00 

Barber, Mrs. L. E 50.00 

Berkley, Mrs. H. F 10.00 

Billings, Mrs. A. D 5.00 

Billings, C. H 5.00 

Bohlinger, A 10.00 

Bond, J. B., Jr 2.00 

Boyle, John F 10.00 

Brack, G. S 25.00 

Brack, Miss M. E 20.00 

Brevsacher, Dr. and Mrs. A. L 10.00 

Brooks, F. S 2.50 

Burchard, George F 3.00 

Cantrell, Mrs. G. M. D 5.00 

Oantrell, W. A 10.00 

Carroll, Gray 15.00 

( 'arnahan. Rev. Wallace 25.00 

Oarnahan, Mrs. W 10.00 

C'arnahan, Miss Lina 1.00 

Clierry, L. W 5.00 

Clarke, F. D 15.00 

Cochran, Mrs. H. K 20.00 

( 'oehran, Harry, Jr 2.00 

Cochran, Sam 2.00 

Cockrill, Mrs. S. R 20.00 

Crease, Miss A. S 5.00 

Crowe, Mrs. T. B 1.00 

Cowpland, John B 5.00 

Conway, Mrs. Alice 5.00 

Dnrraiih, T. J 100.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 289 

Deshon, Mrs. E. A 5.00 

Dibrell, Mrs. J. A 10.00 

Davis, Mrs. W. D 50 

Dunlap, G. W 5.00 

Ellis, Mrs. E. E 1.00 

Emerson, Mrs. A 5.00 

Eggleston, Mr. and Mrs. J. S 10.00 

Erb, Jacob 10.00 

Fletcher, John G 100.00 

Eortson, Mrs. E. S 1.00 

Fox, Mrs. Emma 5.00 

Frolich, Mrs. J 1.00 

Gear, Mrs. P. A 1.00 

Goodrich, Ealph L 25.00 

Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. J. W 35.00 

Goodwin, John B 5.00 

Goodwin, Willie 5.00 

Goodwin, Bessie 5.00 

Gress, Mrs. K. B 15.00 

Griffith, S. L 25.00 

Griffith, Mrs. E. P 10.00 

Griffith, Maude 2.50 

Haile, B. M 2.50 

llanej, J. H 15.00 

Hanev, Mrs. Mary C 5.00 

Hanej, Will ' 1.00 

Harnwell, Mrs 5.00 

Harrell, Miss M. E 2.00 

Hodges, Mrs. C. T 3.00 

Hollenberg, Mrs. H. G 5.00 

Hollenberg, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. T 10.00 

Hopkins, E. 5.00 

Horrocks, Mrs. M. S 4.00 

Hutt, Mrs. F. E 10.00 

Hutton, W. P 5.00 

Jabine, Mrs. J. K 5.00 

Jennings, P. G 10.00 

Johnson, Mrs. Frances 5.00 



290 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Jolmston, M. H 15.00 

Jordan, Miss Matilda 10.00 

Kendrick, Joseph 10.00 

Kirkwood, Jolm W 4.00 

Kirkwood, T. C 5.00 

Klingel, Mrs. Henry 5.00 

Kramer, C. J. . . /. 5.00 

Kramer, Miss Emma 25.00 

Lange, Mrs. W 1.00 

Langdon, Clias. A 5.00 

Langdon, H 1.50 

Lawson, Miss IsTellie 3.00 

Lee, George H 3.00 

Lenow, Mrs. J. H 5.00 

Leslie, Mrs. E 1.00 

Lewis, Charles H 5.00 

Lewis, Misses Lollie and Sue 5.00 

Marguth, Mrs. E. H 1.50 

Martin, Mrs. K. W 10.00 

Matthews, Mrs. J. L 3.00 

Miller, Mrs. J. K 10.00 

Miller, Miss Rosa 5.00 

Mitchell, Jolm A 10.00 

Mjers, B. S 1.00 

Miller, W. H 15.00 

Is^ewton, Mrs. E. C 10.00 

Peay, Gordon I^ 10.00 

Peay, Mrs. Sue C 10.00 

Percival, Mrs. J. M 10.00 

Peyton, Mrs. Caroline 25.00 

Powell, T. C 25.00 

Rather, Mrs. H. C 5.00 

Ragland, W. II 15.00 

Ritchie, J. E 1.00 

Roberts, C. P 2.50 

Rutland, Mrs. A. A 5.00 

Rumbough, Mrs. G. P. C 5.00 

Sannonor, J. H 10.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 291 

Sappingtotn, G. W 10.00 

Sayle, Mrs. Claude PI 5.00 

Scott, Mrs. E. L 10.00 

Scott, Miss Fannie 5.00 

Shall, Miss L. S 20.00 

Skirving, William 5.00 

Simmons, Mrs. J. W 5.00 

Simmons, M. C 1.00 

Smith, Mrs. K. E 2.50 

Smith, Jim 25 

Smothers, L. S 5.00 

Speed, Mrs. J. S 5.00 

Spinner, Mrs. G. V 2.00 

Sonthall, Mrs. J. H 10.00 

Stark, L. K 10.00 

Sterling, Mrs. B. B 2.50 

Stratman, G. H 5.00 

Snndholm, August 10.00 

Timmis, T. J 1.00 

Tucker, Miss Jennie 2.50 

Watkins, Claiborne 25.00 

Watkins, Mrs. Susie 5.00 

Whittemore, C. H 10.00 

Worthen, W. B 50.00 

Wright, W. F 20.00 

Wright, Mrs. E. K 15.00 

Zimmerman, J. V 10.00 

Zimmerman, Mrs. J. V 5.00 

Anonymous 100.96 

Total $1,55 1.21 



August 21, 1894. 
A PLEASA^^T CHURCH EPISODE. 

Sunday was the occasion of a significant event in the 
annals of Christ Church, Episcopal, of this city. Rev. Wal- 



292 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

lace Carnahan, having resigned the charge of this parish to 
accept the position of principal in the Church school at San 
Antonio, Texas, expects to leave with his family for the new 
field of labor on the latter part of the month. 

The Ladies' Aid Society, which has for so many years 
been the bulwark of the Church here, and which has, during 
tlie last eight years done such effective work under his super- 
vision, having the desire to make some expression of appre- 
ciation of his inspiration, guidance and example, united with 
other friends in an offering which was presented to him yes- 
terday. This was composed of four dozen and a half pieces 
of sterling silver for table use, each piece inscribed with the 
name "Carnahan," to include both him and his lovely wife, 
who has endeared herself to the parish by her many virtues. 

The prayers and best wishes of the congregation will 
accomjDany Mr. Carnahan and his family to their new home. 



lArl-ansas Gazette, August 28, 1894.] 
BIDS THEM FAKEWELL. 

KEV. WALLACE CARXAHAX^ THEIR CHAPLAIN^ TALKS TO THE 

MACKS OWING TO ILLNESS HE IS UNABLE TO PREACH 

HIS LAST LITTLE ROCK SERMON. 

The McCarthy Light Guards attended Christ Church 
last Sunday morning in a body in fatigue uniform, to hear 
a few farewell Avords delivered to them by their Chaplain, 
Eev. Wallace C^irnahan, who leaves for San Antonio next 
Friday morning. Owing to illness he was unable to preach 
his regular sermon, however. He complimented the com- 
pany on its manliness and courage as displayed during the 
recent strike and urged them all to be soldiers of Christ. 

He has been Chaplain of the company for some years, 
and they will regret his departure exceedingly. He an- 
nounced that on Thursday evening, this week, he would 
preach his farewell sermon to his congregation, and other 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 293 

friends. After his departure and until the arrival on Oc- 
to[)er 1, of the new Rector, Eev. Gass, of Charleston, S. C, 
tJie Church Avill be closed for repairs. 



REV. WALLACE CARNAHAN. 

THE POPULAR CHRIST CHURCH RECTOR SAYS FAREWELL TO- 
NIGHT HIS RESIGNATION TO HIS VESTRY AND THE 

ACCEPTANCE AN EIGHT YEARs' PASTORATE. 

Rev. Wallace Carnahan, the able and beloved Rector of 
Christ Church, who has served his congregation for eight 
years faithfully, on account of failing healthy has been com- 
pelled to resign his pastorate, and to-night preaches his fare- 
well sermon to his congregation and friends, leaving to-mor- 
row morning for San Antonio to accept the principalship of 
a ladies' seminary. 

His resignation was tendered some months ago. He 
wrote his Vestrj^ as follows : 

'To the Vestry of Christ Church : 

"Dear Brethren — It gives me more pain than I can ex- 
press to write this, my resignation, of the RectorshiiD of 
Christ Church. 

''My work in this parish has been so blessed, the Vestry 
has been so kind and true to me, and the congregation has 
been so appreciative and devoted that it seems almost like 
a father leaving his family for ine to separate from you. 

''Nothing, I am sure, but death or the exigencies of health 
could sever the sacred bond that has bound us together in such 
close and loving relation for these seven and half years. I 
feel constrained to lay down this precious charge and accept 
work where the climate may possibly improve my impaired 
health and prolong my life. 

"I expect to enter upon that work early next autumn, 
and, therefore, beg that you will accept my resignation, to 
take effect the 31st of next August. If God spares my life 

20 



294 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

SO long, I shall on that dav complete eight years of ministry 
with you ; an imperfect ministry I sincerely confess, but I 
trust an honest and earnest ministry. 

"Thanking you from the bottom of my heart for your 
loyal support as a Vestry, and for your innumerable personal 
kindnesses, I am faithfully your brother in Christ, 

"WALLACE CARNAHAN." 

The Vestry accepted the resignation some weeks later in 
tli(^ following letter : 

At a meeting of the Vestry of Christ Church, Little 
Eoek, Ark., the following resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

''Resolved, That the Vestry of Christ Church have 
received, with profound regret, the voluntary resignation of 
Rev. Wallace Carnahan, as Rector of this parish, which office 
he has filled for nearly eight years, to the building up and 
strengthening of pure religion and the welfare of many souls, 
during which time his influence has been felt in countless 
avenues for the good of mankind and which it was their belief 
and hope would continue many jnore. 

"■Resolved, That while considering his withdrawal 
from the parish as a public and private misfortune, in consid- 
eration of the benefit to be secured by a change of climate, we 
do reluctantly accept his resignation with a full conscious- 
ness of our loss, which is only balanced by the hope of the 
benefit that may accrue to him in change of duties. 

"Resolved, That these resolutions be spread on the 
record book of the Vestry, and that a copy of them be sent to 
Rev, Wallace Carnahan and to the press. 

"Attest : W. H. RAGLAND, 

Secretary." 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 295 

KEY. WxVLLACE CARNAHAN. 

THE BELOVED PASTOR OF CIIKIST CHURCH PREACHES HIS FARE- 
WELL AN AFFECTING SCENE AT WHICH DEVOTED 

WOMEN AND BRAVE MEN SHED TEARS 
OF PARTING. 

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith ; 
who for the joy that was set before hini endured the cross, 
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the 
throne of God. — Hehrews xii. 2. 

Rev. Wallace Carnahan has bidden farewell to Christ 
Church and the City of Little Rock, leaving for San Antonio 
this morning with his charming family to seek the restoration 
of shattered health in the balmy breezes of the Spanish- Ameri- 
can city, and to take charge of a ladies' seminary. 

As Chaplain of the McCarthy Light Guards, he bade 
farewell to them last Sunday morning, announcino' that on 
last night he would bid farewell to his congregation and 
friends. 

Under ordinary circumstances this, in many respects re- 
markable preacher of Christ's gospel, attracts a large audi- 
ence, not only from his own communicants, but from the public 
at large, without regard to creed, sect or schism. The fact 
that he would preach a farewell sermon last night filled the 
sacred edifice of Christ Church at Fifth and Scott streets to 
its fullest capacity, representative citizens of all denomina- 
tions being among his auditors. 

During an eight years' ministry in Christ Church Parish 
it is not unnatural that a man of such intellectuality, such 
lu-eadth of imagination, such marked individuality and 
withal such spirituality and honesty of purpose should bind 
liiniself with hooks of steel to his parishioners. j^o man in 
or out of the pulpit in Little Rock has impressed himself to 
such a marked degree upon the community at large. His 
positivism, his strict adherence to a line of action, which, 
if not approved by others, had the approval of his own 



296 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

conscience, has often been the signal battle in the Church 
niilitajit, and no minister has received a stronger cross-fire 
of criticism than he. He possessed all the qualities of leader- 
ship, and of a pugnacious race, as he admitted in his sermon 
last night, with many imperfections, in every fight for what 
he believed to be right, he thought himself faithful to his 
Master. 

The sermon was interlarded in the usual place in the 
beautiful and impressive service of the Church, Professor R. 
Jefferson Hall presiding at the organ. 

He read as the evening lesson the 21st chapter of the 
Acts of the Apostles, choosing for his text Hebrews xii. 2, 
which appears at the beginning of this notice. 

He spoke for half an hour, his auditors drinking deep 
of the words of devotion, admonition and parting of the 
beloved pastor. He likened the Church to the home, the 
family circle, of which the Rector is the fostering parent. He 
believed he had done his duty to his congregation ; that he 
could say this without affectation. He had won the love and 
affection of his parishioners by his leadership. He over- 
came, at times, what had seemed insuperable obstacles, and 
had triumphed. 

He would not have his hearers believe that this was due 
to his own personality, however. He would not presume so 
much. His success had been due to the Spirit of Christ 
behind him, to whom he had been ever faithful. To his suc- 
cess, a loving and devoted parish, Vestry, choir and parish- 
ioners, and Mr. Huntley in the mission field, he had been 
deeply indebted for the results attained. With upturned face 
and closed eyes, in prayerful attitude, he breathed a benedic- 
tion upon his parish. He then turned from the past to the 
future, admonishing his congregation as to its obligations to 
the new Rector, Rev. John Gass, a man of God, who would 
be in every way worthy of their love, affection, and support. 
He would need no apologies. A minister, who needed any 
apologies for his manhood, should be banished from the pulpit. 
It should not be expected that Mr. Gass should be like him- 
self; li!' hopcil he woidd not be. Every strong man has liis 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 297 

own individualities and works, if a true minister of God, by 
different means to the same grand ends. He would not have 
his successor a ''bastard Romanist," and his parish would not 
find Rev. Gass of such. He admonished his parishioners that 
if any should tease the new Rector with requests for a quar- 
tette or any other form of show in the Church that they should 
go to their Rector kindly and assure him of their support in 
his opposition. 

He would like to see the spiritualitv of the Church pre- 
served. He knew his parish w(Mdd receive the new Rector 
with proper respect for himself as well as his opinions. The 
spirit of Christ had harmonized the differences between him- 
self and his parishioners. It would do the same under any 
new conditions that might arise. 

His closing words were uttered with deep pathos, he 
being at times almost overcome with emotion, and followed 
with a prayer for the new Rector, which will linger long in 
the hearts of those who heard it. 

At the close of the service, the vast audience came to the 
altar, and one by one bade the departing minister of God a 
tearful farewell. It was an affecting scene, which moved 
strong men to tears. 

A PRESEXTATIOX. 

The last farewell had not been said when Mr. C. T. 
Coffman, on behalf of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, in a 
few appropriate and well chosen words presented the retiring- 
Rector with a large sized photograph of Christ Church, as a 
reminder of his eight years of service and his faithful flock. 
The Rector was deeply moved, accepting the appropriate gift 
with deepest expression of gratitude. 



298 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK, ARK., 1894. 

REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 2-1, 1894. 

jSTumber of Families 366 

Number of Communicants 661 

Number of Sunday School Teachers 40 

Number of Sunday School Pupils 300 

Number of Baptisms 26 

Number of Confirmations 45 

Number of Marriages 11 

Number of Burials 23 

OFFERINGS. 

Communion Alms $ 147.70 

Rector's Salary 2,400.00 

Gifts to the Rector 315.00 

Church Debt 1,491.60 

Parish Expenses 1,475.60 

Diocesan Missions 116.20 

Domestic Missions 227.00 

Jewish Missions 23.55 

Deaf Mute Mission 10.00 

Widows and Orphans of Clergymen 21.00 

Universitv of the South .' 30.00 



Total $6,257.65 



VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY. 



Church Edifice and Grounds $60,000.00 

Rectory and Grounds 8,500.00 

St. Paul's Chapel 1,500.00 

Total $70,000.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 299 

THE FAMOUS EECTOR OF CHRIST EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH, IX THE CITY OF ROSES. 

COMPELLED TO MOVE TO SAN ANTONIO ON ACCOUNT OF 
FAILING HEALTH. 

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., May 27, 1894.— Rev. Wallace 
C^ariialian, for the past eight years Rector of Christ Episcopal 
Church, this city, and one of the foremost clergymen of the 
South, will shortly give up his pastorate here and remove to 
San Antonio, Texas, where he will assume charge of St. 
Marj' 's Hall, an institution of learning for young ladies, con- 
ducted under the auspices of the Episcopal Church. 

When Mr. Carnahan's resignation was first laid before 
tlie Vestry of Christ Church, its acceptance was declined by a 
unanimous vote ; but when he appeared before the Parochial 
xissembly and stated his real reasons for desiring a change, 
which was on account of his health, the resignation was ac- 
cepted. He, accompanied by his charming family, will leave 
Little Rock in July, and immediately enter upon his duties as 
]»]'incipal of St. Marv's Hall, succeeding the Rev. John G. 
^lulliolland, D. D. " 

This school was established by Bishop Elliott in 1877, in 
a building given by Mr. John Wollfe, of Xew York, in mem- 
ory of a daughter who had died. Miss Phillipe Stevenson 
Avas the first principal, and continued in that position for 
nine years, Avhen failing health compelled her to resign. 
Under her guidance the school grew rapidly, and at the time 
that the present Bishop, Bishop Johnston, came to take up the 
work of Bishop Elliott in 1888, it had outgrown its quarters. 
One of the first enterprises of Bishop Johnston was to build 
a boarding department to the school, and in 1890 the front 
portion of the new buildinfi:, known as Elliott Hall, was erected 
and occupied, and the next year it Avas completed as it now 
stands. 

The departure of Mr. Carnalian from Little Rock is uni- 
versallv recretted bv all who know bim and are familiar with 



300 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

his work in this State. He has done more for Christ Church 
than all his predecessors combined, and his successors will 
find one of the best organized parishes in the entire country. 
That grand and noble man, the lamented Major John D. 
Adams, who was Senior Warden of Christ Church up to the 
day of his death, looked upon Mr. Carnahan as the peer of 
the Southern clergy. The writer well remembers a conver- 
sation he had with Major Adams, about two years ago, when 
the subject of this sketch was being discussed. ''To know 
Mr. Carnahan," said Major Adams, "is to love him. He is 
no ordinary man, by any means ; in fact, I look upon him as 
the peer of any man in our Church. A casual acquaintance 
does not give you a correct insight of the man ; but when you 
learn to know him, and know him well, all earth and its pos- 
sessions cannot sever the ties of friendship which bind you 
to him." This expression voices the sentiment of the entire 
parish. 



LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO EASTER OFFERITs^GS. 

The Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, issue an an- 
nual statement of the Easter offerings for the Church debt. 
The folloAving sums were given on Easter, 1894. 

When the whole debt shall have been paid, a statement 
will be printed showing the total amount received from each 
contributor toward the building of the Church and the pay- 
ment of the debt. 

E. N. Conwav $ 5.00 

Mrs. J. Erb '. 5.00 

J. S. Speed 5.00 

S. B. Stafford 5.00 

S. R. Coekrill 25.00 

Miss Fannie Bell 3.00 

Miss Evie Bell 3.00 

Miss Hattie Bell 3.00 

Mrs. Marv Bell 5.00 

R. IT. Parham 10.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 301 

G. K. McSwine 5.00 

W. A. Cantrell 10.00 

E. R. Wright 10.00 

W. F. Wright 15.00 

M. Wright 5.00 

E. ('. Adams 50.00 

Jno. D. Adams 30.00 

G. Brack, Jr 1.00 

C. Brack 1.00 

Elbert Brack 1.00 

Imogene Brack 1.00 

Mrs. J. Blocker 1.00 

N. Y. Bailev 5.00 

G. M. D. Cantrell 2.00 

Miss Bessie Cantrell 5.00 

Miss Carrie Carnahan 1.00 

Miss Lina Carnahan 1.00 

Mrs. J. A. Crutchheld 5.00 

Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Cochran 25.00 

Miss A. S. Crease 10.00 

Miss Sne Cooper 1.00 

Sam Chnrchill 5.00 

Miss Jennie Clement 5.00 

W. A. Compton 10.00 

L. W. Cherry 10.00 

Mrs. G. A. Davis 5.00 

Miss Emma Fox 5.00 

Robt. Griffith 25 

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Goodwin 85.00 

R. B. Gress 15.00 

Miss Madge Henegen 5.00 

R. O. Hopkins 5.00 

]\lrs. F. E. Hutt 5.00 

Miss Alice Hammond 1.00 

Mrs. C. T. Hodges 3.00 

J. H. Haney 10.00 

Mrs. J. H. Haney 5.00 

Miss M. Tordon 1 0.00 



302 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

J. W. Kirkwood 1.00 

C. J. Kramer 10.00 

Jas. Kendrick 10.00 

Miss Nellie Lawson 2.00 

Miss Emily Lewis 10 

Mrs. Jas. Lawson 5.00 

Mrs. E. S. Leslie 5.00 

G. H. Lee 5.00 

Miss Merrick 5.00 

Miss Marquitli 50 

Mrs. Marquitli 50 

Fred Martin 5.00 

Miss Amelia Miller 10.00 

Miss Rosa Miller 10.00 

Mrs. J. R. Miller 25.00 

Mrs. J. S. Matthews 1.00 

Mrs. A. E. Martin 15.00 

Mrs. J. J. Morrison 1.00 

R. T. Morye 1.00 

Mrs. E. C. 'Newton 5.00 

C. E. j^iswonger 5.00 

Miss Juliette Peav 2.50 

Mrs. S. C. Peay ." 2.00 

Miss Carrie Peav 1.00 

Mrs. G. N. Peay 1.00 

Mrs. C. Peyton 10.00 

T. C. Powell 25.00 

G. K Payne 1.00 

Edna Payne 35 

Addison Payne 25 

Bertha Payne 25 

Rubit Payne 25 

Mrs. S. Parkins 1.00 

Mrs. M. W. Peabody 5.00 

R. W. Polk " 5.00 

Mrs. Rumbough 5.00 

Mrs. A. A. Rutland 1 0.00 

H. 0. Rather 5.00 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 303 

Mrs. Fannie Scott 5.00 

Mrs. S. P. Parks 2.00 

C. II. Sayle 5.00 

J. H. Sannoner 5.00 

A. Sundholni 15.00 

R. E. Smith 1.00 

A. B. Sholars 1.00 

E. H. Tobey 5.00 

Mrs. Jennie Tucker 3.50 

Mrs. J. V. Zimmerman 5.00 

Miss May Wright 50 

Herbert Wassell 10.00 

Mrs. Margarette Wassell 10.00 

Walter Watkins 5.00 

C. H. Whittemore 10.00 

Miscellaneous Cash 98.41 

Dr. C. M. Taylor 10.00 

Mrs. T. J. Churchill 1.00 

Jno. F. Calef 1.00 

Mrs. N. K. Sample 5.00 

Mrs. Fred Martin 3.00 

C. H. Lewis 5.00 

Miss J. Churchill 50 

E. O. Clark 2.50 

M. Wright 5.00 

J. M. Bracey 2.50 

J. S. Eggleston 10.00 

Mrs. A. R. Trazzare 5.00 

G. M. D. Cantrell 2.00 

Mrs. S. E. Barber 40.00 

Mrs. G. S. Brack 10.00 

G. S. Brack 15.00 

Miss M. E. Brack 25.00 

W. H. Ragland 20.00 

A. R. Peyinghaus 10.00 

L. W. Cherry 10.00 

R. G. Pillow 2.50 

G. H. Stratman 5.00 



304 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

H. W. Morrison 10.00 

Hal Cochran 1.00 

Sam Cochran 1.00 

H. N. Samstag 5.00 

W. Carnahan 25.00 

Bob Butler 5.00 

M. H. Johnson 25.00 

J. B. Cowpland 15.00 

Harry Heck 3.00 

Emma Kramer 15.00 

J. E. Harbey 5.00 

Chas. M. Fowler 5.00 

Irene and Ella Adams 2.50 

S. B. Adams and wife 10.00 

Joe Calef 5.00 

W. P. Hutton 2.50 

Mrs. B. B. Sterling 2.50 

Noland Williams 5.00 

Jno. G. Fletcher 25.00 

K. L. Goodrich 25.00 

H. B. Armistead 5.00 

W. S. Haines 10.00 

Bonis Mast 5.00 

J. H. Sonthall 10.00 

T. J. Darragh 25.00 

C. Jennings 5.00 

J. A. Van Etten 5.00 

Francis Johnson 5.00 

Jno. A. Mitchell 5.00 

W. B. Worthen 25.00 

G. K Peay 5.00 

Dr. T^enow 5.00 

Mrs. Griffith 5.00 

Dr. Dibrell 10.00 

D. W. Jones 10.00 

Gray Carroll 10.00 




REV. J. E. H. GALBRAITH. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 305 

A. D. 1863-1894. Rev. John E. H. GalhmiUi (Assist- 
ant Minister of Christ Church, to Rev. Wallace Carnahan), 
Avas born September 2, 18G3, in Bombay, India, where my 
father was, at that time, a missionary of the English C'hurch 
Missionary Society, and in charge of the Robert Money Insti- 
tution, a missionary school. I was baptized in the Cathedral 
there; w^as confirmed in Ireland, of wdiich my parents are 
natives (father being of an old Scotch-Irish family, and 
mother of English parentage), by the late Archbishop of 
Dublin, R. C. French, D. D. ; came to this country in 1883, 
having been educated at St. Columbus's College and Trinity 
College, Dublin, wdiere I took '^honors'' in classics ; took a 
theological course at the University of the South, Sewanee, 
Tenn. ; was ordained by Rt. Rev. A. Gregg, D. D., Bishop of 
Texas, to the Diaconate, at Sewanee in September, 1887 ; to 
the Priesthood by Rt. Rev. J. S. Johnston, D. D., Bishop of 
Western Texas, at San Marcos, Texas, September, 1888; 
spent first months of my Diaconate as assistant at Christ 
Church, Little Rock, Ark. ; was in charge of San Marcos 
and Lockhart from May, 1888, to June, 1889; returned to 
Little Rock, as assistant and in charge of St. Paul's Mission 
and Christ Church Academy, and in June, 1891, took charge 
of Lee County Mission, Beattyville, Ky., and remained five 
years, during which time a handsome stone Church was 
erected there; left Beattyville, November, 1896, and am at 
present Priest in charge of St. Peter's parish, McKinney, and 
St. Paul's, Greenville, in the Diocese of Dallas, Texas ; mar- 
ried Miss Alice Gray Barnett, of Louisville, Ky., October 
2, 1888. We have four children, viz: Richard William, 
John Gray, Selina Emma, and Hugh Barnett. 



The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, ^'For the spread of 
Christ's Kingdom among men," was established in Christ 



306 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Church Parish, by the Rev. John E. H. Galbraith, Chapter 
ISTo. 706, December 28, 1891. 

Rev. Wallace Carnahaii Rector. 

Rev. Mr. G-albraith Curate. 

The Boys' Department of Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 
Christ Church, "For the spread of Christ's Kingdom among 
boys," was organized by J. M. Bracey, January, 1894; char- 
tered January 9, 1896. 

Rev. John Gass Rector. 

The Wardens of Christ Cliurch during the incumbency 
of Rev. Wallace Carnahan besides those mentioned are given 
in order : 

MAJOR JOHN DUNNING ADAMS. 

Major John Dunning Adams, Vestryman and Senior 
Warden of Christ Church, was born in Humphreys County, 
Tenn., June 23^ 1827. No member of the parish ever left a 
stronger impress upon it than Major Adams. He was blessed 
with a good heredity. His father, Samuel Adams, of Virginia 
stock, was president of the Arkansas Senate, acting governor 
of the State, and afterwards State treasurer. He was a man 
of high character and ability. Major Adams's mother was 
Rebecca May, of an excellent Tennessee family. 

John Dunning removed with his parents to Arkansas in 
1835. He received his education in the common schools of 
the State and an academy in Little Rock. 

When 18 years old, he enlisted in the Volunteer Army 
of the United States for the war with Mexico, as a member 
of a cavalry company in Colonel Yell's Regiment. He was 
at once made orderly sergeant, and took part in the battle of 
Buena Vista, where he was severely wounded. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 307 

After the Mexican War, young Adams became private 
secretary to Governor Thomas H. Drew. He studied hiw, 
but never engaged in its practice. 

In 1848 he married Catherine Yeiser, daughter of Dr. 
Daniel Yeiser, of Kentucky, and granddaughter of Philip 
Yeiser, of Baltimore, Md., a man of colonial fame. 

Mr. Adams, for the greater part of his life, was engaged 
in the steamboat business, operating extensively on the Arkan- 
sas and Mississippi rivers. He also invested in plantation 
interests ; in both pursuits he was .eminently successful. 

During the Civil War Major Adams having promptly 
enlisted in the Confederate cause, was soon made quartermas- 
ter of the Trans-Mississippi Department, which office he filled 
with marked success. 

In 1892 he was apj^ointed United States Commissioner 
for Arkansas in the World's Fair, held in Chicago. The 
same year he was elected Commissioner of Mines, Manufac- 
tures and Agriculture, having declined overtures for nomina- 
tion as Governor of the State. 

For many years Major Adams was an active and promi- 
nent member of the Masonic fraternity, and attained the 
highest degrees of that order. 

In every relation, and in any position. Major Adams 
was always the chivalrous gentleman. Brave, generous, 
magnanimous and faithful, he was a modern reproduction of 
the Ancient Knight, "without fear and without reproach." 

Major Adams's fidelity to his friends, and his benevo- 
lence towards all who appealed to his tender heart, became 
proverbial. As husband and father, Major Adams was most 
unselfish and devoted. It is scarcely a figure of. speech to 
say that he was the idol of his family. 

Strong and noble as Major Adams was in his business 



308 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

and social relation, it was chiefly in his relation to the Church 
that his character exhibited its most beautiful aspect. He 
was baptized and confirmed in Christ Church during the Rec- 
torship of the Rev. Wallace Carnahan, whose loyal parishioner 
and affectionate friend he was from the beginning of that 
Rectorship until Major Adams's death. 

He was elected to the Vestry in 1887 and soon afterward 
was appointed Senior Warden, which post of duty he held for 
the remainder of his life. 

In the judgment of this same pastor, Major Adams was 
an "ideal layman," earnest and faithful in the routine duty 
of a Vestryman and Warden^ he rose to a height of moral gran- 
deur in great emergencies. In the most trying and moment- 
ous period of the history of Christ Church, Major Adams sunk 
considerations of worldly policy, and bravely espoused the 
cause of righteousness. It is chiefly to the courage, wisdom 
and self-sacrifice of Major Adams that a great moral revolu- 
tion in the parish was made successful. 

Perhaps the most conspicuous point in Major Adams's 
character was cheerfulness in adversity ; no misfortune could 
dampen his spirits or sour his temper. 

After a painful, but short, illness Major Adams departed 
this life on the 7th of December, 1892, lamented by a larger 
circle of friends than those of any man who ever lived in 
the State. 

He leaves a widow and two sons^, Samuel B. and Dean 
Adams, and a memory redolent with the "sweet smelling 
savor" of a grand Christian manhood. 

In the north transept of the new Church is the large and 
beautiful ^^dndow before described, representing the four 
evangelists, with their symbolic figures. It was donated by 
Major John D. Adams, but bears no inscription. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 309 

HIS LAUGH HIS FORTUNE. 

IT WON HIM FRIENDS AND FORTUNE AND DISCONCERTED HIS 

ENEMIES. 



From the New Orleans T i mes-Deriwc rat.^ 



''Ever hear of a man who made a fortune out of his 
laugh f said a guest of the St. Charles last night, as he looked 
over the register. ''I have heard of girls whose faces were 
their fortunes, . but I knew a man whose laugh was positively 
his fortune. That name — Sam B. Adams — on the register 
there, reminds me of a man who made a fortune out of his 
laugh. His name was John D. Adams, and he was the 
father of Sam, the gentleman registered there. John D. 
Adams was a typical steamboatman of Arkansas, and in addi- 
tion to his steamboating was a ])lanter of extensive interests, 
and was connected with other business enterprises. He was 
the first man to run a steamboat up the Arkansas River, and 
his name in that State to-day is a synonym for geniality, cour- 
ige and business success. He was very successful, and his 
friends used to attribute his success to his wondrous laugh. It 
was not boisterous, yet loud, and was so musical and jolly that 
one could imagine old Kris Kringle was personified in him. 
Av(\ his good humor and genial disposition were contagious. 
Other river men would say that his laugh got him all the gov- 
ernment mail contracts. He would go to Washington, get 
acquainted with the man who had charge of the contracts 
and he, like all of Adams's new acquaintances, would soon 
come under the infection of his magnetic laugh, and form a 
genuine admiration for the jovial steamboatman. lie 
was known at the hotel by everybody, and was pointed out for 
years by a negro porter, to whom he once gave a $5 gold piece 
as a tip in a fit of jollification over the closing of a big con- 
tract in his favor. Amazing tales were told of his courage 
and his steamboat experiences. On one occasion when an 
accident happened to his boat and the passengers became 
panic-stricken, he calmed them as if by magic by calling them 

21 



310 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

children, and laiigliiug at their fear — his famous laugh com- 
pelling conlidence and mirth by its very melody and jollity. 
He even used his laugh when very much angered, but it wab 
of a diiferent character, and death lurked behind it. In a 
steamboat quarrel with three desperadoes, once, he denounced 
them with a laughing accompaniment, a cynical, chilling, 
dangerous kind of a laugh, his eyes glittering like a snake's, 
and his forefinger on his revolver, ready to dash out the life 
of the first one who made a move. One of the desperadoes 
said afterward, in speaking of the occurrence, that he never 
felt so queerly before in his life. He said he felt as though 
the very marrow in his bones was being frozen." — St. Louis 
Glohe-Democrat, July 27, 1897. 

The children of Major John D. Adams and Catherine 
Yeiser, his wife, are Samuel B. and Dean, the only surviving 
members of a grouj) of five. 



SAMUEL B. ADAMS. 

Samuel B. Adams, Vestryman of Christ Church, a son 
of Major John D. and Mrs. Catherine Yeiser Adams, was 
born in Little Rock on the 17tli of January, 1849. He was 
educated at the school of Rev. Pike Powers, in Halifax 
County, Va., at the Virginia Military Institute, and at the 
LTniversity of North Carolina. As a member of the Institute 
Cadet Corps he took part in the valley campaign under Gen- 
eral Breckinridge during the Civil War, and fought in the 
battle of Few Market. 

He became captain of a steamboat at 22 years of age, and 
followed that calling for several years with much prosperity. 

For a year Mr. Adams engaged in mercantile business 
in ]^ew Orleans, and in 1S77 started the firm of Adams & 
Boyle, insurance agents. For ten years he was employed by 
the railroads entering Little Rock as local ticket agent. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 311 

Mr. Adams is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and 
has attained the highest degrees of that order. 

Mr. Adams was twice married, first to Miss Mary Boyd, 
of Halifax County, North Carolina, and some years after her 
death, to Miss Sallie Haney, of Yoiingstown, Ohio. 

Mr. Adams was elected to the Vestry in 1888 to fill the 
place of the late Hon. W. W. Smith, Judge of the Supreme 
Court of Arkansas. He was treasurer of the parish for 
two and one-half years, and chairman of the finance committee 
for several years. 

It is largely to Mr. Adams's financial ability and devo-, 
tion to the parish that its prosperity is indebted. 

As chairman of the building committee, his most recent 
zeal has been devoted to the erection of the new St. Paul's 
Chapel. Mr. Adams was the author of the plan which was 
adopted by the Vestry for bonding the Church debt ; a measure 
which gave the parish relief when staggering under an appar- 
ently hopeless burden. Mr. Adams's unselfish and delicate 
devotion to his pastors, has won for him the name of "the 
Rector's best friend." 

At this time (March, 1899) Mr. Adams is still living, 
the head of a lovely household, composed of his venerable 
mother and his daughters, Katharine (Mrs. Farrar McCain), 
Irene (Mrs. Julius L. Witz), and Ella Sibley. 

Dean Adams is a planter on the Arkansas River; mar- 
ried Amelia Wright, and has one son, John D. Adams. 

The vacancy caused by the death of Major John D. 
Adams, Senior Warden of Christ Church, was filled by the 
former Junior Warden, 



312 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 



WILLIAM ARMOUR CANTRELL, M. D. 

A. D. 1616. The Cantrell or Cantrill family is of 
English origin. The names of large families in the shires 
of Berks, Derby, Suffolk, Stafford, oSTorfolk, Wilts, and York 
are mentioned in the Heralds' Visitations Lists, from 1528- 
1664, as belonging to the gentry. Ralph Cantrell, of Bury 
St. Edmunds, Suftolkshire, England, received a baronetcy in 
1616 from King James I, who instituted the order in 1611, 
and was granted Armorial bearings, which were copied from 
"Heraldry; by Woodward, LL. D., volume 1 plate xxviii, cut 
12" in Astor Library, New York, by a friend, for the writer :* 

"In 1712 Rev. William Cantrell procured the perpetual 
curacy of St. Alkmund's, Derby, England, and, when his 
benefice was created a vicarage, Cantrell Avas its first vicar, 
holding the living to his death. On the pavement within 
the communion rail is a flag, 'for the Rev. William Cantrell, 
A. M., fifty years vicar of this Church.' " 

From the "History of Derby, by Glover," the following 
anecdote is quoted : 

"St. Alkmund's Church is supposed to have been 
founded as early as the ninth century. It is undoubtedly 
the oldest in Derby. * * * Since the year 1712 it has 
enjoyed an endowment, becpieatlied by a gentleman of the 
name of Goodwin, which Mr. Hutton hands down to us in 
the following words : 

"An old bachelor of the name of Goodwin, descended 
from an ancient family in Derby, possessed an estate of sixty 
pounds a year. 'How Avill you dispose of your fortune,' 
says Mr. Cantrell, minister of St. Alkmund's. 'I am at a 
loss,' replied Mr. Goodwin, 'for I have no relations.' Here 
was a fine opening for Cantrell to increase his income and for 



*Mrs. Harlan P. Christie nee Cantrill of Brooklyn, New York. 




WILLIAM A. CANTRELL, M. D. 

PRESENT SENIOR WARDEN. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 313 

Goodwin to save his soul, by giving that property to pious 
uses, which he could keep no longer. 'My Church,' said the 
parson, 'stands desolate; instead of being a place of worship, 
it is only a nursery for owls and bats. No act of charity 
can surpass that of promoting religion.' 'Then I will give 
ten pounds per annum to St. xllkmund's at my death, and the 
residue at the death of my nephew,' which last happened about 
the year 1734. The estate is situated at Plumley, in the 
parish of Eckington. At that time produced sixty pounds a 
ycar^ now about two hundred and ten." 

A picture of this Church w^as sent to the annalist with 
the accompanying note from the vicar in charge, Rev. J. 
Stanley Owen : 

"St, Alkmund's Vicarage, Derby England, 

"July 13, 1900. 
"Mr-s. William Cantrell: 

"Dear Madam — I am sending you the best unmounted 
cabinet photograph of St. Alkmund's Church that is to be had. 
I need not say that the present Church is not the building 
Mr. Cantrell used to minister in. That building, known 
now as 'Old St. Alkmund's', was taken down in 1842, and 
the present Church built on its site, at a cost of about £1 2,000. 
The photograph sent is very good of the Church, as it is now, 
with one exception: the Vestry at the southeast corner has 
been removed and a larger suite of Vestries built in its place. 
We should so like to have a memorial to Mr. Cantrell in our 
present fine Church, if you saw your way to erect one. 
"Faithfully yours, 

"J. STATELET OWEK."* 

The first historical mention of the name in America may 
be found in Captain John Smith's "General Historie of Vir- 
ginia," where William Cantrell is mentioned among the four- 



*See Church at the close of this Tnography. 



314 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

teen gentlemen who accompanied him on his ''discoverie of 
the Chesapeake Bay," in 1608. 

A. D. 1609-1796. In Henning's Statutes or the Laws 
of Virginia, also in ''The Genesis of the United States," by 
Alexander Brown, the name of William Cantrell, Gentleman, 
is mentioned among the number of grantees and an incor- 
porator of the Second Virginia Charter, dated May 23, 1609. 

In Ramsey's ''Annals of Tennessee" is found mention 
of Stephen Cantrell, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch : 

STEPHEN" CANTRELL, SR. 

Stephen Cantrell, St., was born in Abingdon, Va., in 
1758, and came to Tennessee from North Carolina in 1776, 
being then in the service of the Continental Commissioners 
of North Carolina, as Captain of the Guard. Eor his zeal 
and perseverance in the discharge of his duties he was 
awarded a grant of land of 640 acres on Stewart's Creek, in 
Davidson County, Tenn., which deed was placed on record 
in the register's office at Nashville, Davidson County. This 
land grant was located January 29, 1784, signed by Richard 
Caswell, Governor, with seal of the State of North Carolina 
affixed, dated October 8, 1787, and a certified copy of the 
same may be had by applying to the County Clerk of David- 
son County.* This land afterwards lay in Sumner County, 
Tenn., which was erected in 1786 by authority of North Caro- 
lina, off the east end of Davidson. At Fort Blount, East 
Tennessee, Stephen Cantrell, Sr., met and afterwards mar- 
ried, in 1782, Mary S. Blakemore, daughter of Major John 
Blakemore, of the famous Donelson expedition. Stephen 
Cantrell, Sr., and William Montgomery were the first rei)ro- 



*Land Grant No. 64, recorded in Book "A" page ^07. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 315 

sentatives sent from Sumner County to the first legislature 
in Tennessee, which met at Knoxville, East Tennessee, March 
28, 179 G. During the years 1792-93 he commanded a com- 
pany as captain of sixty-three men for the protection of the 
country against the inroads of the Indians. f 

A. D. 1727-1854. He died at his home in Sumner 

County, February 5, 1827, aged 68 years, 7 months and 7 
days. His wife, Mary Blakemore, was born in North Caro- 
lina, March 8, 1765, and died August 2, 1849, aged 84 years, 
4 months, and 25 days. Stephen Cantrell, Sr., and Mary 
Blakemore, his wife, had eleven children, nine sons and two 
daughters. The eldest of these, Stephen Cantrell, Jr., was 
born in Sumner County, Tenn., March 10, 1783, and was 
married:}: at Xashville, Tenn., January 2, 1897, to Juliet Ann 
Deadericl- WendeL He was, at different times during his life, 
merchant, commissary and quartermaster during the Creek 
War ; pension agent for all Middle Tennessee for many years ; 
county magistrate ; mayor of Xashville ; president of the 
Bank of N^ashville, and, finally, a cotton planter on the 
Arkansas River, where he died of pneumonia, September 
5, 1854, aged 71 years. His wife, Juliet Ann Deaderick 
Wendel, was the daughter of David Wendel, Sr., and Susanna 
Deaderick, his wife, born in Winchester, Va., April 8, 1787. 
Her grandfather, David Diedrick, Sr., of Wurtemburg, Ger- 
many, who emigrated to the United States before 1750, was 
among the German Pennsylvanians Avho settled Winchester, 
Va., the oldest town in the Shenandoah Valley.* His name 
and that of Samuel Wendel, of Dort (or Dordrecht), Holland, 
her maternal lirandfather, are numbered amouii' thirtv-three 



tSee the Edition of 1853, pa^e 589 of "Ramsey's AnnaLs of Tennessee." 
tSee marriage notice in Parton"s Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. I, page 246. 
*See Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia, Rockbridge County, 
page 451. 



316 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

of these emigrants, who built the first Lutheran Church in 
that town. A translation of the Latin document placed in 
the cornerstone of that Church is in the possession of her 
son, 

WILLIAM ARMOUR CA^ttreLL, M. D., 

the subject of the subjoined sketch, wdio was the eighth, in a 
group of nine children, three sons and six daughters, born to 
Stephen Cantrell, Jr., and Juliet A. D. Wendel, his wife.:}: 

A. D. 1826-1900. "He was born at his father's farm, 
near Nashville, Tenn., January 23, 1826. At a later date 
the family removed to the citv, where he attended the primary 
schools until he was 13 years of age. He was then sent to 
Princeton, IST. J., and placed at Edgehill Seminary, where he 
made good record as a student. While there he met with 
the great bereavement of his life, in the death of his mother. 
Preceding this, came the financial wreck of his father, whose 
estate had been valued at $200,000. He was recalled and 
became a student at the Xashville University, but soon began 
the study of medicine with his cousin. Dr. James Wendel, of 
Murfreesboro, Tenn. In 1845, he entered the medical 
department of the University of Louisville, Ky., where his 
kinsman, Dr. Lunsford P. Yandell, Sr., professor of chemis- 
try and pharmacy, was one of his preceptors. Drs. Gross, 
Short, Cobb, Drake, Miller and Caldwell occupied chairs at 
the same time, and Dr. S. S. ISTicholas was president of the 
faculty. 

Dr. Cantrell graduated at this LTniversity, March 6, 
1 847. The year following he spent at ISTew York, where he 
received the appointment of assistant physician in Bellevue 



tThis sketch is ooniori fvorn "Biogra^hir-al a'lrl Hi'storif^al Memoirs r>f Central 
Arkansas. r)uhlished by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., at Chicago, Nashville and St. 
Louis in 1889. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 317 

Hospital. He was then appointed to relieve I)r. Winter- 
'bottom, as physician of the JSTursery Hospital at Blackwell's 
Island, and remained there during the summer of 184(S. In 
the following year he went to New Orleans, La., where, feel- 
ing qualified, he proposed to enter upon his life work. 

The solitary condition of his father, however, impelled 
him to abandon his purpose. After one winter of medi- 
cal experience at ISTew Orleans, where he treated yellow fever, 
in epidemic form, he established himself at Pine Bluff, Ark., 
in the vicinity of which his father resided as a cotton planter, 
and later at Little Rock. Here, in LS-19, he met his future 
wife. Miss Ellen Maria Ilarrell, who had lately arrived with 
her family, from Xashville, Tenn., fleeing from the cholera, 
then decimating the city of ISTashville. On February 13, 
1852, Dr. C^antrell and Miss Ilarrell were married in Little 
Hock by the Rev. A. R. Winfield. During what proved to 
be the last year of his father's life, Dr. Oantrell took his 
family to live on an adjoining plantation, and was with him 
at the time of his death, September 5, 1854. Afterward he 
resumed his practice in Little Rock, where he raj)idly built 
up a solid reputation as a practitioner. 

Dr. Cantrell has filled, successively and honorably, the 
positions of city physician, county ])liysician, president of the 
State Board of Medical Examiners, president of the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, delegate to the Medical Associa- 
tion, at Nashville, Tenn., besides attending to a heavy prac- 
tice. He is the only surviving member of the first medical 
association in Little Rock, which he helped to organize. The 
managing board included R. A. Watkins, j\L D., president; 
Wm. A. Cantrell, M. D., secretary: A. W. Webb, ]\r. D. ; 
Craven Peyton, ]\r. D. ; George Sizer, M. D., and Corydon 
McAlmont, M. D. On May 28, 1801, the president of the 



318 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Confederate States of America, at jVIontgomery, Ala., ap- 
pointed liim surgeon of "First Arkansas Mounted Volun- 
teers," Colonel T. J. Cliurcliill, commander, in the Second 
Arkansas Regiment of the Provisional Army of the Confed- 
erate States. In this capacity he served in several engage- 
ments. 

After Lee's surrender he was solicited to take charge 
of the .United States Post Hospital, at the Little Rock gar- 
rison. He accepted and held this position of acting assistant 
surgeon during the command of Brevet Major-General 
Arnold, captain Light Battery G, Fifth Artillery, and that 
of Colonel C. H. Smith, Twenty-eighth Infantry, a period of 
five years. Llis record as a physician at this hospital added 
much to the reputation for sagacity and skill, already earned. 
Very lately he has had charge of the medical department at 
the School for the Blind, in this city, and was appointed 
trustee of that institution by Governor S. P. Hughes.* 

In 1855 Dr. Cantrell became a confirmed member of 
Christ Church (Episcopal) under the hands of Rt. Rev. 
George W. Freeman, who was his constant friend until death. 
He served as a member of the Vestry of Christ Church during 
the incumbenc}' of Rev. Andrew F. Freeman ; of Rt. Rev. 
Henry C. Lay, Bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas, and Rec- 
tor of Christ Church ; of Rev. J. T. Wheat, and Rev. P. G. 
Robert ; was Junior, and, later. Senior Warden with Rev. 
Wallace Carnahan ; Senior Warden with Rev. John Gass, and 
Senior Warden with Hox. G. Gordon Smeade. 



While the social amenity of his disposition and 
grace of manner have caused him to be sought bv the most 



*He is now (A. D. 1900) President of the County Board of Medical Examiners. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 319 

polished circles, the earnest simplicity and sympathy of his 
nature have endeared him to the most humble in rank. Like 
a full river, bravely bearing its own burdens to the sea, yet 
dispensing life and refreshment on each side, his course has 
shown a long succession of private and public services, which 
prove that the prominent desire of his soul has been to be 
useful. 

Mrs. Cantrell is the daughter of Rev. Samuel Harrell 
and Ellen Catherine Collins, his wife. 

She was born at Princess Anne Courthouse, in Princess 
Anne County, Va., where her father was located, being a mem- 
ber of the Virginia Methodist Conference. He died at Mead- 
ville, Va., during her infancy, and is buried near McKendree 
Church, where he preached. Mrs. Cantrell is the grand- 
daughter of Rev. Asa Harrell and Rachel Beeman, his wife, 
of Gatesville, in Gates County, N. C, formerly of Harrells- 
ville, Hertford County, ]^. C, which town, now in decay, was 
orginally in Chowan County, from which Hertford was 
formed in 1759. Asa Harrell served in the War of the Revo- 
lution under General Horatio Gates, in 1780-81. He was 
ordained Deacon in the Methodist Church by Bishop Asbury, 
Gates County, ^N". C, and was ordained Elder by Bishop Mc- 
Candery at Somerton, Nansemond County, Va., on the 20th 
of November, 1820. He was the son of Jesse Harrell and 
Elishua Savage, his wife, and died at 80 years of age, leaving 
a numerous posterity. 

Mrs. Cantrell accompanied her widowed mother, brother 
and sister to Nashville, Tenn., where she was educated under 
the direction of her mother — a woman of unusual talent, 
superior education and varied accomplishments, which she 
employed in the support of her family, as principal of a semi- 
nary for young ladies, situated on Vine street, near Union, 



320 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

JSTasliville. Later the family came to Little Rock, in the 
spring of 1849, and finally settled on a farm on the Arkansas 
river. Mrs. Cantrell is a graduate of the Nashville Female 
Academy, Dr. C. D. Elliott and R. A. Lapsley, principals, 
also of the French Academy, M. Audigier, principal, and is a 
proficient in music. She has been a writer for magazines 
and newspapers — her earliest contributions at 16 years of 
age, having appeared in Godey's Lady's Book. She repre- 
sented the State as essayist in the Woman's Congress at the 
World's Exposition at Chicago, also at the Exposition of 
ISTashville, Tenn., and has served as State Regent in the Na- 
tional Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. She 
was confirmed in the first Christ Church in 1855 by the Rt. 
Rev. George W. Freeman. She is now the secretary of the 
Diocese in the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. 
The children of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Cantrell, all natives 
of Little Rock and vicinity, each of whom has received a 
classical education, are: 

1. Lillian — Mrs, Joseph Lovell Bay, of St. Louis, Mo. 

2. Ellen May — Mrs. Decatur Axtell, of Richmond, 
Va. At Hot Springs, Va., their sunmier residence, Mr. and 
Mrs. Axtell have been the chief inspirers and contributors in 
the building of a Church, wdiich was opened for service on 
Good Friday, April 1, and consecrated October 14, 1899, by 
Bishop Arthur McGill Randolph, of South Virginia. 

3. Daisy — Mrs. Lucius J. Polk, of Galveston, Texas. 

4. Wendel — Who died, aged 11 months. 

5. Isadore—Mri^. Philo H. Goodwyn, of Galveston, 
Texas. 

6. Bessie — For some years secretary of ^'The Little 
Rock Memorial Cha]itor of the I"''nited Daughters of the 
Confederacv." 



! 







ST. ALKMUNDS CHURCH, DERBY, ENGLAND. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 321 

7. Decide rick Ilarrell — Of Little Kock, lawyer. 

8. WiUiain Annour, Jr. — Of Fort Worth, Texas, rail- 
road agent. 

The children of J\ir. and Mrs. Bay are Lillian, Manstield 
Cantrell, Amy Axtell (]\[rs. Kobert Tyler Sturgeon, of St. 
Louis, Mo.), Lovell, Ellen Virginia, who died in infancy, and 
Margaret Wendel. 

The children of Colonel and Mrs. Polk are Armour 
Cantrell, Anne Leroy, Lucius Junius, Jr., Margaret Wendel, 
Daisy Cantrell, and Ellen Harrell, who died in infanc}'. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwyn are Philo 
Hiram, Jr., and William Cantrell. 



HOis\ WM. W. SMITH. 

Hon. Wm. W. Smith was i\.ssociate Junior Warden of 
Christ Church with Major John D. Adams. 

A. D. 1838-1888. Hon. Wm. W. Smith, Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, was born in Cokes- 
burg, Abbeville County, S. C, October 12, 1838. He was 
a graduate of South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C, and 
married Emma Connor, August 9, 1865. He came to Arkan- 
sas in 1866, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and entered into 
partnership with ex-Governor Simon P. Hughes (at present 
Associate Justice of Supreme Court) in the practice of law 
in the same year at Clarendon, jMonroe County. He served 
at the bar till 1882, when he was elected one of the Associate 
Judges of the Supreme Court. He died December 18, 1888. 
His Avidow survives. The children of Judge Smith and 
"Emma Connor, his wife, were Julia, Emma, Dennie, Frances,. 



322 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Annie, and an infant son, William Wright Smith. Only two 
lived to be grown. Dennie was married February 24, 1892, 
to Harry B. Carter, and died August 18, 1895, leaving one 
eliild, Albert Carter. Judge Smith was an active and faith- 
ful member of the Episcopal Church. He served as Vestry- 
man and Superintendent of the Sunday School of the Church 
at Helena, Ark., where he lived in 1877, and, during his resi- 
dence in Little Rock, served as Vestryman and Junior Warden 
in Christ Church. As a staunch friend and counselor, he 
was inexpressibly prized by his Rector, Rev. Wallace Carna- 
han, who, in a time of parochial distress, was indebted to him 
for moral support and affectionate sympathy. His name 
adorns these annals as a beloved and honored Warden. 

In the fifty-first volume of Arkansas Reports of the 
Supreme Court the opening pages are set apart and entitled 
"In Memoriam." Of the beautiful tributes there presented 
by distinguished orators, two, by those who knew him as a 
Churchman, are transferred to these pages : 

Mr. Justice Smith died on the 18th day of December, 
1888. The sad intelligence of his death was announced to 
the people of the State by the following proclamation: 

Again the State of Arkansas mourns the loss of one of 
her best citizens. 

The Hon. W. W. Smith, Associate Justice of the Su- 
preme Court, departed this life at 11 o'clock p. m. the 18th 
instant, at his residence in the city of Little Rock. In his 
death the family has lost a most excellent, kind and affection- 
ate husband and father; society, one of its most valued and 
best beloved members ; the bar of the State, a modest, earnest, 
able and upright member ; the judiciary, a just, conscientious 
and able judge; the State, a citizen of great worth, faith- 
ful, patriotic and true in all the relations of life; and 
the Church, a meek, devout and consistent member. In 
t(-ken of respect for his memory, the flag on the Statehouse will 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 323 

be lowered to halfmast until after his funeral, and the offices 
of the State government will be closed on Thursday, December 
20, after 12 o'clock m., that the State officers and employees 
may attend the funeral. 

SIMON P. HUGHES, 
Governor of the iState of Arkansas. 

Immediately after this announcement a meeting of the 
bar of the Supreme Court was held in the Supreme Court- 
room. The meeting was called to order by Governor Hughes 
and upon his motion. Chief Justice Cockrill was requested to 
act as chairman. On taking the chair, and after making- 
other remarks appropriate to the occasion, Judge Cockrill 
spoke of Judge Smith as follows : 

He came upon the bench six years ago, admirably 
equipped and prepared for the discharge of the duties of his 
office. His previous training had been rigid from close and 
systematic study. Those wdio knew him had no apprehen- 
sion as to his career upon the bench, for they knew that he 
brought to bear upon its duties an aptitude for labor, and a 
well-trained mind that was clear and logical and never uncer- 
tain in its conclusions. They have not been disappointed in 
the result. His labor was gigantic. Immediately upon 
his entry upon the bench it was perceptible that business was 
dispatched more expeditiously, and even the most critical will 
be compelled to acknowledge that his work was well done. He 
may have committed errors. He must have been more than 
mortal not to have done so. In the discharge of his duties 
he was industrious, unassuming and far seeing. 

He had the patience and willingness to hear and to learn, 
which, it has been said, is, in the assemblage of judicial 
qualities, perliaps the rarest and most valuable. His lucid 
and logical manner of statement is apparent to all who have 
listened to or who have read after him. 

His judicial style is sim])lo and direct. It was never 
diffuse and rarelv ambiguous. It was in these respects but 



324 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

the reflex of his cliaracter, for he was ingenuous, frank and 
direct to a greater degree than any man 1 have ever known. 
These qualities, aided by his clear perception and power of 
mental concentration, enabled him quickly to detect nonessen- 
tials in a cause, and penetrate at once into the very heart of 
a controversy — rarely being led off from the controlling 
points by any wavering desire to follow up useless investiga- 
tions. The duties of his office circumscribed the limits of 
his ambition, and he delighted in their performance — not 
from any sense of j^ride of place or power, for he was of a 
sturdy mould that despised ostentation, and recognized more 
and more as the swift years went by, that officeholding is 
among the least of the pleasures or personal benefits of life. 
His ambition was to be useful to his fellow-men by the faith- 
ful performance of a sacred trust. ISTo standard of honor 
was higher or sense of justice more robust than his. He 
recognized that the importance of an upright and capable 
judiciary cannot be overestimated in its value to the State, 
His aim was to lend his aid in perfecting it as far as in him 
lay. His effort was not without its fruits; but wdiat he 
accomplished was not by the exercise of the qualities I have 
mentioned alone. It avails nothing that a judge is only 
patient, laborious and able. There is another quality, with- 
out which these are useless. It is courage. I do not refer 
to personal courage, though Judge Smith was endued, as I 
am informed by his war comrades, with as ti-ied a courage as 
ever marched up to the roaring throats of a dee]) ranged artil- 
lery — but I refer to a bravery of a higher and a rarer kind — - 
bravery which could be steadfast under the criticism of friends 
and against the assaults of enemies. In this, no man, I 
believe, in modern or in ancient times, excelled him. No 
popular prejudice or partisan clamor could move him. He 
was zealously devoted to duty and became a martyr to his 
devotion. He has as certainly sacrificed his life upon the 
altar of public service as did ever a soldier wlio, at his coun- 
try's bidding, meet fleath upon the field of battle. Weary and 
worn with the travail of hi^; office, he has dragged out tho past 
vear, bravelv batflinc" to recaiu the strenofh he had lost in the 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 325 

service of his peoj^le. lie is no longer trammeled. He is 
delivered out of bondage, Tliougii dead lie speaks. His 
voice, tlirougli bis decisions, will still lind audience among 
those to come after us. His impress is upon the bar and 
the judiciary, and through them upon the people. His influ- 
ence was always for good; wutli him there was no retrograde 
movement. He despised hypocrisy and detested wrong. 
While the hands of all who knew him are raised to do him 
reverence, would that mine had the cunning to bring the 
sweetest rose of all the field to deck his name, for none 
deserved it more. I trust that better words than I can speak 
will tell how his loss wall be mourned and felt. I do not 
think it the exaggeration of praise to say that now, when he 
has just reached the midday of his usefulness, the State could 
have better spared any other of her best and most loyal 
citizens. In reverent gratitude I do thank God that he has 
blessed this land with the birth of such a man, and made it 
my 2:)rivilege to know him. 

Mr. W. S. McCain was appointed secretary of the meet- 
ing. Upon motion, the chair appointed a committee on reso- 
lutions, consisting of Messrs. Sol F. Clark, U. M. Rose, E. W. 
Kimball, John Fletcher, J. W. Blackwood. 

The chair appointed Judge Rose to present them to the 
United States Court ; Mr. George W. Caruth to present them 
to the Supreme Court; Mr. W. C. Ratcliffe to present them 
to the Pulaski Chancery Court, and Mr. E. W. Kimball to 
present them to the Pulaski Circuit Court. 

The resolutions were presented to the Supreme Court by 
George W. Caruth, late United States Minister to Spain, him- 
self a faithful Churchman, in the form here quoted : 

Supreme Court of Arkansas, 
Saturday, May 18, 1880. 
Present: Sterling R. Cockrill, Chief Justice; Burrill 
B. Battle, Monti H. Sandels, Wilson E. Hemingway^ and 
Simon P. Hughes, Associate Justices. 

22 



326 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Mr. George W. Carutli addressed the court as follows: 
May it Please Your Honors : 

W. W. Smithy the Senior Associate Justice of this court, 
departed this life, after a long illness, on the isth day of 
December, 18SS. 

On that day his professional brethren, keenly alive to the 
great calamity which had befallen both them and the State, 
took order touching his death, adopted a series of resolutions, 
feebly expressive of their feeling of admiration, love and 
respect for their deceased friend, and deputed me to present 
them in this tribunal, that they may be writ upon your honors' 
records, there to remain as long as those records themselves 
remain, as an earnest, heartfelt, but inadequate tribute to 
that upright judge. As I speak these words I am painfully 
impressed with the frequency with which death has flung its 
awful shadow over and about this chamber. When I came here, 
but a few years ago, to be enrolled at this bar — and oh, how 
short and swift have been those years — there sat on the bench, 
English, whose kindly features look down on us from yonder 
speaking likeness ; Walker, whose strong, rugged personality 
made him so great a figure in our jurisprudence, and Har- 
rison. English and Walker, after serving their country with 
fidelity and ability, now sleep with their fathers. Harrison 
alone, is left. Then came the courtly and learned Eakin, who 
soon wearied of the struggle and went to join the wife of his 
youth, who had preceded him to the great hereafter. There at 
the clerk's desk sat Luke E. Barber, whose presence here was 
a benediction for so many vears, and by his side, his deputy, 
his brother, Gwyn ; both are gone. Following fast and quick 
after these distinguished dead, came our lamented friend, and 
another judge of this court ceased from his labors. In deliver- 
ing addresses of this character, one is naturally apprehensive, 
lest, following the admirable maxim, de mortius nil nesi 
honum, exaggerated phrases and extravagant eulogiums Avould 
find a place. But in this instance it is but the plain truth 
when T say my apprehension is not that T will say too much, 
but too little; in a word, that T will not be able to do simple 



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justice to the exalted character, great abilities and lovable 
qualities of him of whom I now speak. No language I could 
employ would be too strong in expressing my own estimate of 
the man and the judge. 

A. D. 1838-1882. Judge Smith was a native of South 
Carolina, born near Cokesburg, in the year 1838. He had 
the benefit of a college education, having graduated from the 
South Carolina College in 1859. The year after his gradua- 
tion he came to this State and settled in Monroe County. At 
the commencement of hostilities in the late war he joined the 
First South Carolina Regiment, commanded by Colonel 
Gregg. He subsequently served as Ca])tain in the Twenty- 
third Arkansas, under Colonel Adams. When the war ended, 
having shown himself a brave soldier and skillful officer, he 
returned to Clarendon, and in 1867 formed a partnership with 
Simon P. Hughes, afterwards governor, and now a justice of 
this court, in the practice of law. Judge Smith continued the 
practice of his profession at Clarendon until 1877, when he 
removed to Helena, where he remained until he was elected 
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in 
1882. In the spring of 1888 a pulmonary disorder discov- 
ered itself, making it necessary for him to seek relief in rest 
and travel. He made a resolute and manly struggle with his 
dread antagonist, undertaking weary journeying, striving 
vigorously 

"To hold death awhile 
At the arm's end." 

Gallant as was his struggle, it was fruitless. To him 
the end was at hand, and finding himself mortally smitten in a 
distant State^ he came back to his home to die. Surrounded 
by his family, ministered to by loving hands, without a mur- 
mur, in full possession of his faculties, fully realizing that 
the supreme moment had arrived, he calmly bade the world 
farewell. 

Thus passed away a great jurist, and as clear souled and 
clean handed a man as this age has produced. Great intel- 
lectually, he was no less great morally and spiritually. ^fy 



32S THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

acquaintance with him began in 1S78. To have known him 
was a privilege, and to have had his friendship I account one 
oi the most fortunate events of my career. 

He was an admirable practitioner, splendidly equipped 
in the learning of his profession, studious, careful, painstak- 
ing, and the very soul of honor ; but it was as a judge, in the 
discharge of judicial functions, that his pre-eminence was so 
marked. It is said of poets they are born and not made. I 
sometimes think it might with equal truth be said of judges. 
The profession knows that to be a good lawyer is one thing 
and to be a good judge is another. Something more is 

needed. It is the judicial mind, and Judge Smith had that 
to perfection. He had patience without limit, and although 
himself possessed of a quickness of apprehension which 
enabled him to grasp the situation in a moment, he was always 
willing to listen to the humblest and dullest of us with a 
courtly attention which made it an absolute pleasure to 
appear before him. 

As a judge in this court, I am sure I do but speak the 
unanimous sentiment of the bar when I say, no one could be 
more thoroughly competent to discharge its high, delicate and 
always responsible duties. 

With great learning ever at hand and ready for the occa- 
sion, whatever may have been its exigency, he was always 
most happy and felicitous in its application to the case under 
consideration. 

As for his judicial opinions, from the first to the last they 
were models. For purity of style, for clearness of thought, 
for felicity of illustration and vigor of expression they stand 
among the finest of judicial deliverances. His mind was 
clear, earnest and powerful, and all his faculties severely 
disciplined. 

His analytical and logical powers were remarkable. 
There was a delightful directness about all he said. He called 
things by their right names, and no man had to read twice to 
ascertain what he meant. There was, in addition, a simplicity 
of expression which was always charmins'. He wasted no 
Avords, but straightway went to the very core of things. This. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 329 

characteristic directness and simplicity was lexemplified in 
one of his last earthly utterances. But a little while before 
his dissolution he was asked if he was conscious of his condi- 
tion. His response came clearcut and direct, "Yes, the end 
is near. I am all right." That was all he said, and why 
should he not be "all right V If this white-souled Christian 
gentleman, who had been faithful to every trust, had dis- 
charged every duty, coidd not afford to die, who could ? 

The Psalmist asks : "Who shall ascend into the hill of 
the Lord ?" and on answering seems almost to have had our 
dead friend in view: "Even he that hath clean hands and a 
pure heart ; and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, 
nor sworn to deceive his neighbor." 

He loved the truth for the truth's sake ; evenhanded 
justice was what he sought, and to accomplish that no amount 
of labor was too great, no extent of research too much. His 
convictions were always followed, and it never concerned him 
how his conclusions were received. He neither claimed nor 
sought applause. Ilis was indeed a striking and unique 
judicial personality. All his ambitions were centered on a 
faithful discharge of his duties. I have, if your honor pleases, 
no hesitation in saying that nearly as any one I ever knew 
he filled the measure of a perfect judge. With abilities of a 
character to have commanded attention at any time or place, 
he never sought distinction in the political world, nor was he 
ever induced to seek any of its glittering prizes, because he 
loved the law. 

He was, under all circumstances, a gentleman. T^o man 
more scrupulously observed those courtesies and amenities 
which do so much to soften and beautify life. 'No man 
endeavored more earnestly to fulfill all the duties of society 
as they came to him, and a truer friend or one more willing 
to oblige could not be found. 

He despised sham, cant and hypocrisy, and was as open 
as the day, being, indeed, an "Israelite in whom there was 
no guile." His life was blameless as became a devoted riiris- 
tian, for such he was. He believed iiii])Hcitly in the truth 



330 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

of our liolj religion, lived accordingly, and could well say 
at the end, "I am all right." 

We have laid away in his last resting place our distin- 
guished and lamented friend, whither he went in the full faith 
and belief of a blessed resurrection. A stately and beautiful 
column of the State has fallen. This court can no longer 
profit by his wise and judicious counsel. His family, always 
so precious to him, is deprived of his protection and aifection. 
But, if your honors please, we have this consolation : We 
have left the recollection of a life full of purity, exalted 
abilities and duty performed. We have this remembrance. 
Let us cherish that — 

'Tor memory is the only friend 
That grief can call her own." 

Pursuant, therefore, to the request of my brethren, I 
no^^' present these resolutions. 

Mr. Caruth then read the resolutions adopted by the bar 
of the Supreme Court, which may be found on pages 36-39 
inclusive, in the same volume of reports. 

In Church, as well as State, this Warden was the pillar 
in the temple, whose top was finished with lily work, the 
name of which was Boaz — "In it is strength." 



MR. JOHA" WATTS GOODWIIT. 

A. D. 1831-1893. Mr. John Wath Goodwin, who had 
for some time served as treasurer of Christ Church, was elected 
Junior Warden in 1893. The death of Major John D. 

Adams, whose office of Senior Warden devolved upon Dr. 
W. A. Cantrell, occasioned a vacancy in the office of Junior 
Warden. This has been filled by Mr. Goodwin during the 
past seven years. He was born in l^elson County, Va., 
August 6, 1831; was confirmed in 1849 in the Chapel of 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 331 

Jubilee College, Illinois, by Bishop Chase, and was married 
October 25, 1870, at Early Grove, Miss., by Rev. W. K. 
Ponglass, to Elizabeth Eose Bailey, who was born August 5, 
1839, in Fayette County, Tenn. She was the daughter of 
Dr. Isham G. and Susan Bird (Smith) Bailey. By occu- 
pation Mr. Goodwin was a merchant, and later the treasurer 
of the Little Bock and Memphis Railroad. Since 1887 he 
has resided in Little Rock. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Goodwin are : 

(1) John Bailey, (2) William, and (3) Bessie. 

Mr. Goodwin's grandfather and great-grandfather were 
both in the Continental Army. He is the descendant in the 
sixth generation from IMajor James Goodwin, who came over 
from England and settled near Yorktown, Va., about the 
middle of the seventeenth century, in the following line : 

Son of James DosweJJ Good ir hi. who died June, 1869, in 
Memphis, Tenn., and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. His 
wife was Catherine (Watts) Goodwin, wdio died January 27, 
1851, in Ralls County, Mo., and is buried near Hydesburg, 
Mo. Their children are : 

1. Marie Louise — Born October 6, 1826; married 
Leroy P. Stewart. 

2. Jolut Watts — Born August 6, 1831; married Eliza- 
beth Rose Bailey. 

3. Tirginia Ella — Born January 31, 1843; married 
Charles T. Hodges. 

■1. James Overton — Born Juno 14, 1846; died July, 
1876; unmarried. 

5. Mary Catherine — Born May 27, 1849; died July, 
1860; unmarried, and three others who died in infancy. 

Mr. Goodwin's grandfather was Thomas Goodirin ; born 
May 25, 1765, in Hanover County, Va. ; was married in 1789 



332 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

to Temperance Harris, who was born also in Hanover County. 
She was the daughter of Overton and Ann (Xelson) Harris. 
He was a farmer, and in religion a Baptist. They resided in 
iS^elson County. 

Thomas Goodwin served an unfinished term of enlist- 
ment for his father in the Continental Army, and was a Revo- 
lutionary j)ensioner. He died in I^elson County, Va., April, 
1838. 

Great-grandfather, John Goodwin; born iiovember IT, 
1735, in York County, Va. ; married to Elizabeth Doswell ; 
born 1743, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Drummond) 
Doswell ; she, a daughter of a son of William Drummond, 
governor of the Carolinas. 

Great great-grandfather, James Goodivin ; born in York- 
Hampton parish, York County, Va. ; was married first, to 
Diana Chisman ; born October 12, 1715; a daughter of John 
and Eleanor (Howard) Chisman. 

Great great great-grandfather, Peter Goodivin, was mar- 
ried before 1607 to Rebecca Tiplady, a daughter of Captain 
John Tiplady, Justice of the Peace for York County, and son 
of John and Ruth Beale Tiplady. 

MAJOR JAMES GOODWIX. 

Major James Goodwin, the head of the family, married, 
first, Rachel , of York County, Va., whose tomb- 
stone on Back Creek, says, that she was born in 1G30, and died 
]\ray 23, 1G60, leaving, as it states, by Major Goodwin five 
sons and two daughters, viz : 

1. Robert ; married Anne . 



2. J oil II ; married Elizabeth ]\[oore. 

3. Peter; married Rel)ecca Tiplady. 




REV. JOHN GASS. 



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4. Matthew. 

5. Martin ; married Barbara . 



6. Susannah ; married — — Duke. 

7. Elizabeth ; married — — Blinkhorn. 

Though none, perhaps, phice a higher estimate on the 

value of an lionorable ancestry than does Mr. Goodwin^ he 
is yet entirely exempt from the charge of resting on that for 
his advancement in life. 

''Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors," 
and in every charge of life Mr. Goodwin has endeavored so to 
perform his duty that he may leave the matchless legacy of a 
good name to those who come after him, rather than to look 
backward to those who went before for support. On his 
own merits he has won the esteem and confidence of the com- 
munity and the Episcopal congregation. 

REV JOHN GASS. 

A. D. 1894. Eev. John Gass succeeded the Rev. Wal- 
lace Carnahan, as Rector of Christ Church, having arrived at 
Little Rock, October 4, 1894. The newspaper chronicled the 
event thus : 

Sunday morning (October 9) at Christ Church a cordial 
and flattering reception was accorded the new Rector, Rev. 
John Gass, who recently came hither from Charleston, S. C. 
The distinguished young divine made his first appearance in 
this city before a very large representation of T^ittle Rock's 
best people, all of whom were favorably impressed with him. 
He took his text at the Sunday morning service from Exodus. 
iv, 2 : '^\nd the Tord said unto him. What is in thine hand ? 
And he answered, a rod." 

The eloquent young Rector's discourse was assuredly a 
splendid introduction of his force, intellect and capability to 



334 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

the people of this city. He is one of the youngest divines 
in the country, yet he ranks with those much older than he is. 
He speaks without notes, and with a voice resonant and clear. 
When fairly inducted in the various duties of his well- 
organized charge he began to establish what he deemed of first 
importance, namely, a school for CUiurch girls. As doubts 
were felt and expressed as to the healthfulness of underground 
({uarters for all-day sessions, and, as the patronage did not 
justify the expense of renting rooms in a more appropriate 
locality, the school was suspended after one year's experiment. 

A. D. 1896. On Monday, October 5, 1896, Mr. Gass 
opened a Bible class for ladies, with thirty-three members, 
and also one later for gentlemen. The first lived to be the 
most vigorous arm of his consecrated service, the other became 
merged in the order already estatblished by Rev. John E. H. 
Galbraith, the Brotherhood of St. xlndrew. The Bible class 
did more towards promoting the spiritual grow^th of the parish 
than any other means employed during Mr. Gass's Rectorship. 
Taking "Blakeslee Graded Lessons" wdth written questions 
and answers, as a Bible study manual, he enlarged and ex- 
pounded on each lesson with the lore he had accumulated by 
diligent study, in such clear style and with such winning 
friendliness that none ever went from the weekly meeting 
without being edified and strengthened to meet the demands of 
life. It seemed a marvelous thing to see fifty or more wives, 
mothers, grandmothers, and maidens seated in rows before him 
in the Sunday School room, with written answers carefully 
prepared, eagerly seeking instruction as it fell from the gra- 
cious lips of this gentle teacher. The good did not stop there. 
His familiarity with Scripture, obtained thus in constant 
study, brightened his discourses, like a thread of gold in a 
texture of fine cloth, and his hearers were sent back to the 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 335 

field of the world, armed with ''the sword of the spirit which 
is the Word of God." 

A. D. 1895. In October, 1895, the Rector issued the 
first number of a parish paper, under the ausj^ices of the 
Christ Church Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 
The initial page is here given : 



OUR PARISH. 

VOL. 1. LITTLE ROCK^ ARK.^ OCTOBEK^ 1895. NO. 1. 

CHRIST CHURCH. 

Southeast corner Fifth and Scott streets. 
Rev. John Gass, Rector. 
Rectory, 509 Scott street. 



VESTRY AND OFFICERS. 

Dr. W. A. Cantrell Senior Warden. 

Jno. W. Goodwin Junior Warden. 

H. K. Cochran Treasurer, 

W. H. Ragland Secretary, 

Sam B. Adams, W. F. Wright, J. H. Ilaney, A. A, 
Rutland, J. M. Bracey, J. A. Van Etten, Gordon ]^. Peay, 



SERVICES. 



Morning Prayer Sermon 11 a. m. 



m. 



Evening Prayer and Sermon 7 :30 p 

Holy Communion, first Sunday 11 a. m 

Third Sunday at " Y :30 a. m 



336 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

SUNDAY SCHOOL. 

9 :30 a. m. Rev. John Gass, Superintendent ; E. H. 
Tobey, Assistant; A. H. ISTewton, Secretary and Treasurer; 
Herbert Wassell, Librarian -^ Miss Irene Baird, Pianist ; Miss 
Hattie Cowpland, Violinist. 



MISSIONS. 



J. J. Huntley, Superintendent. 
St. John's southeast corner Second and Rector avenue. 
Albert Wassell, Assistant Superintendent. 



St. Paul's, Eleventh, between Rin2;o and Cross. 
Mr. Dunlap, Assistant Superintendent. 
J. M. Bracey, Bible Class Leader. 



St. Luke's, Argenta. 
Herbert Wassell, Assistant Superintendent. 



SOCIETIES OF THE PARISH. 

BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW. 

E. H. Tobey Director. 

Albert Wassell Secretary. 

J. M. Bracev Treasurer. 



LADIES AID SOCIETY. 

Mrs. Thos. J. Dari'agh President. 

Mrs. Emma S. Lawson Vice President. 

Miss Sophia Crease Secretary. 

Mrs. T. J. Dill Financial Secretary. 

Mrs. G. S. Brack Treasurer. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 337 

DAUGHTERS OF THE KIKG. 

Mrs. John Gass Directress. 

Miss Rose Miller Assistant Directress. 

Miss Caroline Peaj Secretary and Treasurer. 



THE WOMAN S AUXILIARY, 



Mrs. Catherine Skipwith Vice President. 

Mrs. John Gass Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. R. J. Polk Corresponding Secretary. 

Mrs. W. H. Ragland Treasurer. 



CHANCEL GUILD. 



Mrs. G. W. Sappington President. 

Miss Matilda Jordan Secretary and Treasurer. 



A. D. 1896. The Missionary Society had been doing 
splendid work in the parish under the direction of the 
former Rector, Rev. Wallace Carnahan, and his successor 
emulated his zeal in the furtherance of the devoted object of 
his life. At the tAventy-fourth annual council of the Episco- 
pal Church in Arkansas, which was convened in Trinity 
Cathedral May 8, 1896, the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry Xiles 
Pierce, reported the establislnnent in the Diocese of a branch 
of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions, with 
Mrs. John Gass, Diocesan Secretary, under the direction of 
the general secretary, Miss Julia C. Emery, at the Church 
Missions House, ]^ew York, a woman whose inspiring zeal 
and wise administration have greatly stimulated the interest 
and enthusiasm of the Church in Arkansas on the subject of 



338 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

domestic and foreign missions. Through the officers of the 
several branches she has transmitted much missionary litera- 
ture and statistics that have greatly enlarged the survey of 
missionary fields. 

Mr. Gass was the first Rector to introduce a vested choir 
of boys. These were supported by a double quartette of 
adults. On Easter Day, April 14, 1895, with Mr. R. Jeffer- 
son Hall, as organist and choirmastQl', the following 
members marched from the Vestryroom across the Chan- 
cel to the main aisle and from thence to the choir stalls 
in the south transept: Henry Gass, Elbert Brack, Gott- 
lieb Brack, Maurice Cowpland, Fletcher Kimball, Edwin 
Scott, Lovell Bay, Robert Johnson, Tim Allan Smith, 
Corydon Wassell, Cruger Smith, Jesse Dill, Mack Whiting, 
Charles Lawson, Will Skidmore, and Charles Polk. They 
took the front seats of the choir, those in the rear being already 
occupied by Mesdames Hall, Bailey, Cochran, Davis ; Misses 
Eield, Bobbins, Lawson, Bell, Heath, Parliam, Woodruff, 
Perry, Goodrich ; Messrs. C. P. Harnwell, Walter Polk, J. L. 
Hornibrook, Louis Dodge, Birkett, Leonard H. Camp. T. 
Mc K. White, Harry J. Hall, Dunaway, and Armistead, in 
all forty choir members. A brilliant programme of music 
was rendered. 

The Easter offering for Church debt was $1,350, the 
Sunday School offering not included. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 339 

LIST OF CONTRIBUTOliiS TOWAKD THE PAY- 
MENT OF THE DEBT ON CHRIST CHURCH, 
LITTLE ROCK, ARK, 1896. 

The Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, issue an 
annual statement of the Easter Offerings for the Church deht. 
The following sums were given on Easter, 1896 : 

When the whole debt shall have been paid, a statement 
will be printed showing the total amount received from each 
contributor toward the building of the Church and the pay- 
ment of the debt : 

EASTER OFFERING^ 1896. 

Adams, Mr. John A $ 10.00 

Adams, Mrs. Elvira 25.00 

Adams, Mr. and Mrs. S. B 5.00 

Adams, . Mr. C. S 5.00 

Adams, Mr. J. D 5.00 

Adamson, Mrs. J. S 4.00 

Augspath, Mrs 4.00 

Armistead, General H. B 5.00 

Alley, Fannie 25 

Allen, Mrs. A. D 5.00 

Barclay, Mrs. Sue 1.50 

Bond, Mr. J. B., Jr 2.00 

Bovle, Jno. F 5.00 

Brack, Mr. and Mrs. G. S 20.00 

Blocher, Mrs. Jesse 1.50 

Buchard, Mr. Geo. F 25.00 

Bond, Mrs. S. P 3.00 

Blackwood, Mrs. J. \Y 1 0.00 

Bracey, Mr. J. M 10.00 

Bailey, Mr. N. Y 5.00 

Bateman, Mr. U. C 5.00 

Burkett, Mr. R. L 1.00 

Bentley, Mrs. E 5.00 



340 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Butler, Mr. C. M 10.00 

Bunch, Mr. T. H 15.00 

Brack, Miss Imogene 2.00 

Brack, Elbert 1.00 

Brack, G. S., Jr 1.00 

Brack, Clifton L 1.00 

Brodie, Mr. John 10.00 

Butler, Mr. Robt 1.00 

Bernays, Mr. Louis C 2.00 

Cantrell, Miss Bessie 5.00 

Cantrell, Dr. G. M. D 5.00 

Cantrell, Mr. D. H 5.00 

Cantrell, Dr. W. A 10.00 

Carroll, Miss Fannie 5.00 

Carroll, Miss Susie 5.00 

Calef, Mr. J. B 10.00 

Carroll, Mr. Gray 10.00 

Cunningham, Miss Kate 5.00 

Churchill, Miss Juliette 1.00 

Clements, Miss Jennie 15.00 

Cochran, Mr. and Mrs. H. K 20.00 

Church, Mrs. P. K 5.00 

Coffman, Mr. C. T 5.00 

Compton, W. A 10.00 

Casper, J. E. L 5.00 

Cherry, Mr. and Mrs. L. W 10.00 

Crease, Miss A. S 5.00 

Cockrill, S. R 25.00 

Curtis, Mr. Zay B 2.00 

Cowpland, Mr.' J. B 25.00 

Cohen, Mrs. C. S 5.00 

Carrol], Mrs. C. E 2.00 

Carroll, Mr. Casey 5.00 

Cockrill, Mr. Ashley 5.00 

Daughters of King 20.00 

Daughters of King 80.62 

Dibrell, Mrs. J. A 10.00 

Dunklin, Mrs. W. J 3.00 



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Deshon, Mrs. E. A 3.00 

Darragli, Captain T. J 25.00 

Denie, Mr. M. R :i.50 

J)avis, iJorothy 1.00 

Edwards, A. B 5.00 

Eberts, H. F. H 10.00 

Fox, Mrs. A. II 5.00 

Fox, Miss Gertie 2.00 

Fowler, Chas. F 10.00 

Fletcher, Mr. F. M 1 0.00 

Fletcher, Mr. John G 25.00 

French, Mr. Ross 1.00 

Galloway, Mr. D. F. S 5.00 

Goodwin, Mr. John W 26.25 

Gass, Rev. John 10.00 

Gass, Mrs. John 5.00 

Griffith, Mrs. S. L 10.00 

Goodrich, Colonel R. L 25.00 

Goodwin, Miss Bessie 5.00 

Goodwin, John B 5.00 

Gress, Mrs. R. B 10.00 

Gress, Elizabeth 50 

Hammond, Miss Alice 1.50 

Hutt, Mrs. F. E 5.00 

Ilntton, W. P 2.50 

ITennegin, Miss 5.00 

Jlempstead, Mr. Far 5.00 

Hollenberg, Mr. F. B. T 10.00 

ITnnter, Mr. A. J 5.00 

Hodges, John P>.00 

Harrington, Jas 2.00 

Harbey, Mr. J. E 5.00 

Hamilton, Robt 2.50 

Jenkins, Mr. W. E 2.00 

Jabine, Mrs. John 10.00 

Johnson, M. H 10.00 

Jordan, Miss Matilda 5.00 

Jennings, Dr. R. G 1 0.00 

23 



342 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Johnston, A. H., and daughter 50 

Johnson, T. T 2.50 

Johnson, Francis 5.00 

Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. H. P 15.00 

Jennings, Dr. Ches 5.00 

Jones, Mr. H. C 10.00 

Kendrick, Mr. Jos 15.00 

Kramer^ Miss Emma 15.00 

Kramer, Fred, Jr 5.00 

Kramer, Mr. C. J 10.00 

Knights Templar 6.25 

Kirkwood, Mr. John 5.00 

Kirkwood, Mr. and Mrs. T. C 3.00 

Leslie, Mrs. A 2.50 

Lawson, Mrs. E. A 5.00 

Low, Mrs. Geo. J 5.00 

Leland, Mr. E. W 10.00 

Lee, Mrs. G. H 10.00 

Lange, Mrs. A 8.00 

Ladies' Aid 2.00 

Lenow, Dr. J. H 5.00 

Ladies' Aid 51.20 

Lewis, Mrs. C. H 2.00 

Morye, Mr. C. T 5.00 

Mayer, Mr. Max 2.00 

McKay, D. A 5.00 

Martin, Joe 1.00 

Miller, Mrs. J. K 25.00 

Miller, Marguerite 25.00 

Miller, Wiley B 25.00 

Miller, J. R.' 25.00 

Miller, Miss Rosa 10.00 

Miller, Miss Amelia 1 5.00 

Meshon, Mr. Jeff 5.00 

Mitchell, Mr. John A 25.00 

Martin, Mrs. Fred 5.00 

Matthews, Mrs. L. B 2.00 

IForrison, Jennie 2.00 



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Matthews, L. and E 50 

Morrison, Mr. H. W 10.00 

Martin, Mrs. K. W 10.00 

Miscellaneous cash 112.74 

jSTeiley, J. B., and wife 5.00 

"Norton, S. A 2.00 

O'Connell, Miss Fannie 5.00 

Perrie, C. T 2.50 

Powell, W. J 2.50 

Polk, Mrs. L. G 5.00 

Polk, R. J 5.00 

Polk, Eugene 5.00 

Parkins, Mrs. S. . 2.50 

Pillow, R. J 10.00 

Pierce, Mrs. H. 'N 5.00 

Parham, Major R. H 10.00 

Paine, Mrs. Oscar 2.00 

Pillow, Mrs. R. G 2.50 

Polk, R. W 5.00 

Penzel, Chas. F 25.00 

Pevton, Mrs. C 5.00 

Peay, G. N 10.00 

Peay, Mrs. J. C 5.00 

Rather, Mrs. H. C 5.00 

Rutland, Mr. and Mrs. A. A 25.00 

Rickon, F. J. H 2.50 

Reyburn, Sam 5.00 

Ragland, Mr. W. H 25.00 

Read, Mrs. Julia 5.00 

Scott, Miss Fannie 5.00 

Speed, ]\rrs. J. S 5,00 

Sholars, Dr. A. B 10.00 

Smith, R. E 2.00 

Sayle, Mrs. C. H 5.00 

Southall, Dr. J. H 10.00 

Sannoner, J. H 5.00 

Spears, Miss Annie 2.00 

Sannoner, Mrs. M. L 1.00 



344 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Skipwitli, Mrs. K 10.00 

Sappington, Mrs. W. A 10.00 

Sundholm, Mr. Aug 5.00 

Sterling, Mrs. B. B 2.00 

Smothers, Mr. L. S 1.00 

Shall, Miss L. S 25.00 

Sheltz, Mrs. M. A 50 

Thien, Mrs. C. E 1.00 

Taylor, Dr. C. M 25.00 

Tucker, Mrs. Jennie 2.50 

Tunnah, J. K 5.00 

Van Etten, Mr. J. A 25.00 

Van Etten, Mrs. G. H 20.00 

White, Juliette B .85 

Wing, Mrs. CM 5.00 

Worthen, W. B 50.00 

Woodcock, F 5.00 

Wassell, Mr. A 5.00 

Whittemore, Mr. C. H 10.00 

Wright, Morehead 5.00 

Wright, Captain W. F 10.00 

-Williams, Mr. Is'al 5.00 

Wassell, Herbert 10.00 

Zimmerman, J. V., and wife 7.50 

Total $1,778.16 

A. D. 1897. Two years later Professor R. Jefferson 
Hall conducted the Easter Services, with the following sub- 
joined programme: 

Easter Sunday services at Christ Church to-day will be 
inaugurated at 7 :30 a. m. with a celebration of the Holy Com- 
munion. There will be morning prayer Math sermon and 
celebration at 11 a. m., Simday School festival at 3 p. m., 
and evening prayer and song service at 8 p. m. The choir 
M'ill be composed of the following singers : 

Boys — John Gass, Ji-., Henry Gass, Jack Mitchell, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 345 

Jamie Abbott, Thos. Howard, Hal Cochran, Oscar Scliaad, 
Frank Mitchell, Sam Cochran, Randolph Newton, Cleni 
Schaer, John Foulkes, Percy Skirving, Joe Kennedy, Allie 
Hemming, Gordon Blackwood, Gottlieb Brack, Chas. Lawson, 
Elbert Brack, Will Skidmore. 

Men — Messrs. Robertson, Brantley, Waters, Berbig, 
Martin, Whiting, Schaer, Lescher, Wilson, McGee, Field, 
Hornibrook. 

Ladies — Mrs. Hall, Misses Bell, Smith, Lawson, Ward, 
Johnson, Pickering, Carlisle, Deane, Freeman, Brack, and 
Mrs. McGee. 

Mr. Gass was a pleasant speaker, and delivered some in- 
teresting lectures, representing the Association of Pastors of 
the several denominations in the city, and the Young Men's 
Christian Association. 

One of his sermons that he deemed worthy of preserva- 
tion in the form of a small printed pamphlet is here inserted : 

SERMON PREACHED BY REV. JOHN GASS IN 

CHRIST CHURCLI, LITTLE ROC^K, ARK., 

TRINITY SUNDAY, LS05. 

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the 
Holy Spirit. — Matthew xxviii , 19. 

To-day is Trinity Sunday. It is the completion of the 
Christian year. All that has gone before looked forward to 
this truth ; all that is to follow will be drawn from it. The 
one purpose of the life and work of Jesus Christ was to reveal, 
to make known the Father. Advent was the heralding of 
the cry, '^'Behold I He cometh ;" Christmas was the incarnation 
of the Son of God. Then we beheld the life of the God-man 
in all its sympathy and helpfulness. Good Friday we saw 
the Lamb of God offering Himself for the sins of the world. 
Easter was LTis glorious victorv over sin and donth. Then 



346 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Whitsunday was the giving of the Promise, the coming of the 
Spirit to guide us to God, to teach us the truth of God in 
Jesus Christ. So to-day we stand at the very height and 
limit of Christian knowledge — the Being of God ! The pur- 
pose of all Christian effort is to attain the vision of God, to be 
like God, so to-day we contemplate the end of our life — the 
Being of God ! What a profound thought ! When the 
Prophet Isaiah had the vision of the Lord, he said, ''Woe is 
me ! for I am undone ; because I am a man of unclean lips, and 
I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips ; for mine eyes 
have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts." When the beloved 
John beheld his ascended Lord in glory he fell at his feet as 
one dead. What shall we do ? Pray to the Holy Spirit to 
make pure our hearts that we may see God. Xow, before 
going on, let me make a few remarks as helps and safeguards 
against error. 

(1.) The Trinity is not a doctrine about God that we 
must accept in order to be saved. It is not a theory about 
God that the Church or the clergy have formulated to force 
upon the laity. Sometimes I think persons in the pews think 
this. It is not necessary for salvation to accept any theory 
of the Trinity, The Trinity is not a doctrine even that Jesus 
Christ taught. The Trinity is a fact existing from all 
eternity. So the Trinity is not a doctrine about God, but 
the revelation of the Being of God. (2.) The Trinity is not 
n problem in heavenly arithmetic. Daniel Webster was once 
asked if he could explain the Trinity. He replied : "How 
can you expect me to understand the arithmetic of heaven, 
where three are equal to one and one to three ?" The mathe- 
matics of heaven are the same as that of earth. The Trinity 
has not been revealed as a problem to worry, to puzzle us, 
and to make demands upon our credulity. (3.) The Trinity 
is not irrational. It is not a doctrine we must accept in blind 
faith, feeling all the time a revolt and protest in our minds 
against it. If it is a question between our reason and any 
theory of the Trinity, then we had better give up the theorv, 
because reason is the highest, divinest part of us, and to be 
untrue to it, is to be untrue to ourselves. But haiijiily there 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 347 

is no such question. (4.) We must be humble. We are 
finite, God is infinite ; we are limited, God is illimitable ; we 
are sinful, God is holy. We cannot expect to know all of 
God. We do not know about the eternal existence of God 
before time and creation and therefore cannot speculate about, 
or try to define it.* The Trinity is not a complete definition 
of God, it is the revelation of God to our finite understanding 
(IS He is to us. Let us be willing to confess, ''now we sec in 
a mirror, darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part, 
but then I shall know even as also I have been known." 

ISTow: (1.) We confess the unity of God. The 
C^hristian religion springs from the stock of the Jewish relig- 
ion. It changes none of the truths of that belief, but takes 
them up, brings them into clearer light and fulfills them. The 
Jews were witnesses in history to the oneness of God. Their 
first and greatest commandment was, "I am the Lord, th}' God, 
thou shalt have none other Gods but Me." "Hear, O 
Israel, the Lord thy God is one God." The N"ew^ Testament 
never speaks of but one God. "One God and Father of us 
all." The unity of God is the very foundation of the Chris- 
tian religion. We confess the oneness of God as strongly as 
any. We are unitarians not tritheists ; monotheists not poly- 
theists. Now in the unity of the Godhead Ave say there are 
three Persons. The cause of all the confusion, de1)ate and 
schism has been the word, Person. I think it would hv well 
to change the word and to substitute another in its place. The 
most orthodox of theologians, Calvin, once said the same. It 
is an indefinite word. It gives cause for misunderstanding. 
It does not mean the same thing in theology as in common 
speech and the people always give to its theological use their 
meaning. The early teachers of our religion, when they 
used the words "three persons," did not mean by the word 



*We only know God as revealed to us in His relation to u-^. Wo cannot trv to 
explain hoir'Qod existed hefoj-e this. There are certain st-iteim^nts that the Word 
or Jesus or the Son was before all thinsrs, was with Gxi, was ti>d— had the Glory of 
the Father hefore the world was— is the imaare of the invisible Gid, the first -born of 
all creation. -John I, 1,3: John XVU. 5: Col. I. 15. But from these we cannot con- 
struct any doctrine of the eternal Trinity before time. 

"The name of the Holy Trinity expre.sses all that has been made known to us of 
the relation of the Godhead to ourselves as we are created, redeemed, sanctified. 



348 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

person what we now mean. Person with ns signifies wiU. 
Yon cannot conceive of personality withont wilL It is the 
very center and core of the person. Take any three persons 
you know, A, B, and C, they signify three separate, distinct 
persons, because of their three separate, distinct wills. ISTow 
this has been applied rigidly to the Godhead in many theologi- 
cal books, and to-day it is the popular conception of God. God 
the Father with one will^ God the Son with another will. God 
the Holy Spirit with still another will. 

The will of God the Father is opposed in anger to the 
man ; the will of God the Son is moved with love to man and 
He reconciles the will of the Father ; the will of the Holy 
Spirit in a mysterious, miraculous way works upon the wills 
of men. So we have really three Gods. TJnitarianism was 
the righteous protest against this mechanical theory of God 
and has resulted in much good. Xow in truth there is but 
one will in the Godhead and in this sense really but one Per- 
son — the will of the Father^ manifested by the Son, energized 
by the Holy Spirit. According to the ancient teaching God 
i;:- one in essence but threefold in operation — Father, Son, and 
Holy Spirit. 

(a.) God is the Father. God is the source from which 
all things come, as the fountain from which all life pours is 
the Father. God, the Great "I Am" of existence, the eternal 
first cause — God in the primeval essence of His Being, is the 
Father. We do not know all of God, up in the heio:hts we 
cannot scale, back in the infinite distances we cannot see, God 
is the Father. "The infinite, eternal energy behind all 
things," is God the Father. God "whom no man hath seen 
nor can see" is the Father. 

(h.) God is the Son. But God is not self-contained, 
the fountain of life is not always shut up. Ever from all 
eternity God has been and is manifesting, revealing Himself, 
ever the fountain ha? been and is sending forth its life. That 
which comes from and is begotten of God is the Son. The 
Son is God manifesting Himself, "speaking out in phenomena 
and fact." God in revealing Hiniself has revealed Himself 
perfectly in the man Jesus Christ. "In him dwelleth the 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 349 

Godhead bodilj-." '*God was in Christ revealing lliTnself 
unto the world." Therefore we call Jesus Christ the Son of 
God. (Compare John 1, i, 10; Colossians I, xv, 21.) 

{(■.') God is the Holy Spirit. But once more God 
has not left the world. lie did not make the world and then 
leave it alone as a mechanic will leave his work. He is living, 
working, energizing in the world. He is an immanent God. 
What is tlie power in human history always turning and shap- 
ing it strangely upward, onward ? What is the influence 
in human lives, speaking to conscience, stirring up from sloth 
and sin, arousing to action, quickening into life, producing 
holiness 'i This power, this influence, is the Holy Spirit of 
God. The personality of the Holy Spirit is the personality 
of God producing holiness, righteousness, in the world. ''And 
this God is indeed the same God who is beyond and above all 
as the Father and throngh all as the Son." (Compare John 
xiv, 26; Romans v, 5; Komans xiv, 17; xv, 13, etc.) 

To gather up our truth in a few words : (1.) There is 
God above all, the Source from which all things come ; tliis is 
God the Father. (2.) Then there is God manifested through 
the world, through nature, tlirough human life, sujiremely 
through Jesus Christ; this is God the Son. (8.) And then 
there is God energizing in human history, living in hmnan 
life; this is God the Holy Spirit — ''one God and Father of 
all, who is over all, and through all and in all." "The Father 
is the Life Transcendent, the Divine Source "o^■('r uJ/:" The 
Son is the Life, the Divine Stream "tlirough dJL" The Holy 
Spirit is the Divine Inflow into the individual consciousness, 
giviiig inspiration to the conscience of each separate cliild of 
the Father of all "m a//."* 

Now, brethren, is all this theory and idle sjiecnlation I 
For what good ? Let us see: («.) What is the flrst serious 
(picstion that comes to the human mind 'I Is it not this, 



*This note is written for any theoloerianinto whose hands this sermon may come 
This may be said to be Sabellianism. Accordina; to that heresy the Son and .Sjiirit 
were but transient, t^-mporary modes assumed by God for a purpose: as soon as that 
purpose was accomplislied these modes of )iein<j were discarded. But in the above, 
Father, Son and Holy Spirit are eterntil oT'crators of the one God. God is not 'in ab- 
stract unit, but a livintr Beina: with absohite relations to all that is — the.se relations 
are Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Father is God above us, the Son is God with 
us, the Holy Spirit is God in us. 



350 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

What is the power back, Ijehiiid all things, at the very heart of 
the Universe, from which all things come, to which they go ? 
Is it blind fate ? Varying Chance 'i Eternal force '( Is there 
any power at all 'i Ever the mind goes seeking, searching to 
find the secret. There is no rest until it is found. "Tell me 
thy name." The Trinity declares that above and behind all 
things and life as the source from which they come, as the end 
to which they move, is the Eatherhood of God. Back in the 
veiled, mysterious infinity, forward in the unsolved future 
there is nothing that can hurt us because the Fatherhood fills 
it. (6.) The second question is this: As we look out 
over the world with its light and darkness, its good and evil, 
its beauty and ugliness, we ask, who made it ( Is there 
dualism ? Did the powers of good and evil unite to create it ? 
Is the Devil equal to God as the builder ? The Trinity 
declares it is begotten of God. The power that governs the 
w^orld, the life that fills the world, is the Son of God. The 
world is from God. Hope on. Work on. "God shall be 
all in all." (c.) The last question is, as we look out on the 
ceaseless, selfish strife between man, the dark social problems, 
sin and wrong so strong in human lives, we ask, Is there any 
higher power with man ? Where is God ? The Trinity 
declares that the Holy Spirit of God is present in the history 
and life of man at work, energizing, agonizing, and will give 
victory to truth and righteousness and will lead men on to the 
perfect knowledge of God. Oh ! fellow-men, the truth of all 
truths for the world, for mankind, for us, is the Trinity. God 
above us as the Father, God ivith us as the sharer of our life, 
the bearer of our woes, the partner of our struggles, our 
Brother ; God in us as our Life, our Conscience, our strength — 
the voice of our prayers. Indeed "if the Trinity is not in 
the Bible it ought to be." 

"Teach us to know the Father, Son, 
And Thee of both to be but one ; 
That through the ages all along 
This may be our endless song — 
Praise to Thy eternal merit 
Father, Son and Holy Spirit." 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 351 

A. D. 1896-1898. At the twenty-fourtli annual of the 
Episcopal Cliurcli of Arkansas, which convened at Trinity 
Cathedral, Little Rock, May 7, 1896, Rt Rev. H. N. Pierce 
recommended the election of a Coadjutor. Rev, John Gass, 
Dean of the Little Rock Convocation, chairman of the stand- 
ing committee, and chairman of trustees of the University of 
the South, and Rev. C. H. Lockwood, of St. John's Church, 
Helena, Dean of the Helena Convocation, chairman of thf 
board of managers of the parochial paper, were prominently 
mentioned for the jDlace, also the Very Rev. Wm. Montgomery 
Brown, Archdeacon of the ])iocese of Ohio. There ^vas no 
election. 

At a special session of the Diocesan Council, which met 
at Trinity C^athedral December 1, 1897, the last mentioned 
dignitary was elected, and the majority of the standing com- 
mittee of the American Episcopal Church signified to the 
committee of this Diocese on April 5, 1898, their consent to 
the consecration of Archdeacon William M. Brown to be 
Bishop-Coadjutor of Arkansas. From the House of Bisliops 
there came to Archdeacon Brown at Cleveland, Ohio, on June 
3, 1898, the following telegram: 

"Majority of Bishops' consent received to-dav. 
(Signed.) "W. C. DOA^TE." 

Bishop Doane is the acting executive head of the House 
of Bishops. Accordingly, on the Feast of the Nativity of St. 
John the Baptist, June 24, 1898, at half past ten o'clock, in 
'J'rinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, Archdeacon Brown 
w^as duly consecrated Bishop-Coadjutor of the Diocese of 
Arkansas. 

About three months previous, the Rev. John Gass Avas 
tendered a call from St. Luke's Church, Atlanta, Ga., and on 
April 22, 1898, it was announced that at the Vestry meeting 



352 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

of Christ Church held before the convention of the annual 
Diocesan Council a letter was read from hiin, in which^ with 
many expressions of regret, he tendered his resignation as Rec- 
tor of the parish. Chief among his reasons for changing the 
location of his work, was that a serious throat trouble which 
caused him great and continual suffering could only be 
relieved by a change of climate. This resignation was ac- 
cepted with profound regret by his Vestry and deplored by 
the congregation and community at large. On May 29, 1898, 
he preached his farewell sermon at Christ Church, and on 
eJune 7, 1898, he arrived in Atlanta and entered upon the 
work of his new parish. On Saturday, August 27, the St. 
Louis Glohe-D e mocrat announced the death of Rev. John Gass 
in South Carolina, where he had gone for a brief vacation, 
from acute appendicitis. Through the Arkansas Gazette on 
Sunday morning, August 29, ''the news came as a thunderbolt 
from a clear sky." 

Arrangements were made for a memorial service at 
Christ Church, to be conducted by the Rev. C. C. Kramer, of 
New Iberia, La., who was the acting Rector at the time. 

This was held on Sunday, September 4, an account of 
which was given in the Arl-ansas Democrat of ]\[onday, Sep- 
tember 5, and is here appended : 

HE WAS A GOOD MAIs^. 

LOVIXG MEMORIAL SERVICES IN IIOXOR OF REV. JOHN GASS^ 
LATE RECTOR OF CHRIST CHITRCH TRIBUTES SO TEN- 
DER xVLL BORE TESTIMONY TO HIS GREAT 

WORTH AS A MILITANT CITIZEN OF THE 
LORD''s COM MOX WEALTH. 

Services in memory of the late Rev. John Gass were held 
yesterday forrnoon in Christ Church, of which lie was so long 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 353 

tlie beloved Eeetor. The attendance of [)arishioners and 
friends from other denominations was qnite hirge, and the 
services, conducted bv Kev. C. C. Kramer, acting Rector, 
were very impressive and breathing a spirit of veneration for 
him in whose memory they were come together. Added inter- 
est attached to the service from the fact that this was the 
close of Rev. Kramer's connection wdth the parish, and the 
people have learned to love and admire his acting Rectorship. 
The altar and chancel were beanti fully decorated with floral 
ofi^erings, crosses, crowns and other designs. These flowers 
Avill be sent to the bereaved wife of the distinguished divine, 
who will cherish them, though faded, for the tender memories 
clustered about their petals. 

At the conclusion of the beautiful E])isc()})al service a 
nund:)er of resolutions were oifered^ which are given below : 

BY THE VESTKY. 

''Wkereas, Our l)ek>ved Rector, the Rev. John Gass, 
was, on the morning of August 26, called by Almighty God 
to the life immortal, and we, the Vestry of Christ Church, 
desire to give expression to our personal loss, as well as that 
of the Church Militant in which he served so faithfully. 

Resolved, That in the death of the Rev. John Gass, 
Christ's vineyard on earth has been deprived of a distin- 
guished laborer, who never spared himself in doing his mas- 
ter's service. 

Resolved. That his eminent qualities of mind and heart 
com])leteh' endeared his life to all who tasted of its sweetness 
and sanctity. 

Resolved, That while humbly bowing to the Divine 
will, and fully believing this faithful workman has been sum- 
moned to a higher service, we cannot fail to express the irre- 
pressible sorrow which hovers as a shadow upon those who 
called him a friend and pastor. 

Resolved, That his labors in Little Rock as Rector and 
citizen were of the highest philanthropic and beneficent 
nature, and our city has been so abundantly blessed by his 
four years' residence amongst us that our people will never 
cease to hold his name in grateful remembrance. 



354 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Resolved, That to those dear ones who knew him as 
wife and children, whose affliction and grief are of the heaviest 
and severest character, we extend the most earnest sympathy 
of our hearts, and we pray that the Divine Comforter will 
console their sorrow and dissipate their cloud by the bright- 
ness of His presence. 

(Signed:) C. C. Kramer, Priest in Charge; W. A. 
Cantrell, Senior Warden; J no. W. Goodwin, Junior Warden; 
S. B. Adams, F. M. Jeiferson, Treasurer ; Gordon j^. Peay, 
Secretary; G. S. Brack, J, M. Bracey, H. K. Cochran, C. T. 
Coifman, A. A. Eutland, J. A. Van Etten. 



LADIES AID SOCIETY. 

In compliance with a special request, a brief synopsis 
of the life of this distinguished divine was prepared by his 
own hand, and bestowed as a parting gift upon the writer. In 
its simple modesty it is a fair epitome of his character. In 
its record of work done there is no doubt of his having been 
happy in performing it, in reverent imitation of the Master. 
It is here appended: (Eead by J. M. Bracey.) 

Rev. John Gass, born Greenville, January 16, 1857; 
educated at Greenville, and the University of the South, 
Sewanee, Tenn, ; ordered Deacon in Christ Church, Green- 
ville, S. 'C, by Rt. Rev. W. B. W. Howe, October 29, 1883 ; 
first sermon preached ISTovember 5, 1882, in the same Church ; 
married Miss Ivy W. Perrin, of Abbeyville, S. C, January 
17, 1884 ; ordained to the Priesthood by Rt. Rev. C. T. Quin- 
1ard in St. Augustine's Chapel, Sewanee, Tenn., July 13, 
1884; sermon by the Chaplain, Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, text 
II Corinthians, iv, 18; first charge was the twin parishes, 
Winsboro and Ridge Springs, S. C, from June, 1885, to 
October, 1880; then went to Augusta, Ga., the Church of 
the Atonement, October, 1886, to June, 1890; served as 
assistant minister in Grace Church, Charleston, S. C, from 
June, 1890, to October, 1894: was Rector of Christ Church, 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 355 

Little Eock, Ark., from October, 1894, to June, 181)8. Dur- 
ing his KectorshiiJ in Christ Church, 188 persons were bap- 
tized, 151 conlirmed, 46 marriages performed, 105 burials." 

When the news of his death reached Little Rock a meet- 
ing of the Ladies' Aid Society was called for Friday after- 
noon, September 2, at the Church, by the vice president, Mrs. 
Francis Johnson, who, in the absence of the president, ap- 
pointed a committee to draft resolutions of respect and sym- 
pathy. They are liere appended : 

A new and solemn exj^erience has come to this associa- 
tion. For more than thirty years it has been, in all seasons, 
whether of success or failure, the main reliance of the Rector 
and the Yestry. Many times the members have met to unite 
in expressions of sorrow at the removal of an associate to a 
higher plane of service, but never before have they been called 
together to mourn the passing of their Shepherd from his 
place among them to the home eternal. Only three short 
months have slipped away since our beloved Rector, Rev. 
John Gass, bade farewell to this fold and assumed charge of 
another, but as his official successor had not as yet assumed 
the vacated place, and as four years of zealous leadership and 
loving guardianship had identified him with this parish of 
Christ Church, Little Rock, it seemed that this congregation 
should be accorded the place of chief mourner in the far- 
reaching processional of grief. That he was admired, respected 
and beloved at St. Luke's may not be questioned, but only 
this congregation, who knew him at the maturity of his physi- 
cal strength, in the completeness of his intellectual growth 
and splendor, and in the perfection of his goodness, "when 
faith and love, which parted from him never, had ripened his 
just soul to dwell with God," can do full justice to his memory. 

Whether in his robes of office at the font, at the prayer 
desk, pulpit and the table of Holy Communion, at the mar- 
riage altar, at the bedside and at the grave, in his daily walks 
through the streets and environs of the citv, wherever one of 
his flock needed ministrations, he seemed always animated 



356 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

with tlie same single-liearted, earnest purpose, the saving of 
souls, so that in his warfare with "the world, the flesh and 
the devil," while not a Goliath in frame, he was a David in 
might, and a Goliath might envy his unheralded deeds of 
heroism. Admirals and generals may be commissioned by 
man, but an apostle, such as he, is only commissioned by God. 
He died at Pendleton, S. C, at the residence of Colonel B. E. 
Sloan, on Friday, August 26, 1898, and was buried on Sun- 
day afternoon at 4 o'clock at Greenville, S. C, the place of 
his birth. His remains were taken from the residence of his 
stepfather, Mr. H. C. Markley, to Christ Church, Greenville, 
where impressive services were held, and simultaneously at 
St. Luke's Church, Atlanta, Ga., his latest charge. He left 
a wife, who shared his highest aspirations, and whose greatest 
happiness was to sustain him in his parochial and apostolic 
work. He left also a group of lovely children, between the 
ages of 12 and 6 — Ivy, Henry, John and Catherine, and 
Bessie, the daughter of a deceased brother, who had become 
his charge. Their best inheritance will be the memorv of 
his virtues. As companions in their sorrow be it 

Resolved, That in losing our Rector, the Rev. John 
Gass, we feel ourselves bereaved of a brilliant teacher, a loving 
counselor, an affectionate friend, and a worthy examplar, who 
has passed like a shining light to the courts above. May we 
follow in the path he made ! 

Resolved, That we extend the united sympathy of this 
body to the bereaved members of his family, and the joint 
prayer that God may "give unto them beauty for ashes, the 
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for heaviness." 

Resolved, That these expressions of condolence be 
placed on the records of the society for our remembrance and 
admonition, and that a copy of the same be forwarded to the 
widow of the deceased. 

(Signed.) MRS. W. A. CANTRELL, 

MRS. SUE CREASE PEAY. 
MRS. J. M. BRACEY. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 357 

DAUGHTERS OF THE KING. 

The resolutions of the Daughters of the King, Advent 
Chapter, in loving memory of Rev. John Gass, were read by 
Governor Dan W. Jones as follows: 

For years we have walked and worked and sat with him 
in heavenly places. He was our head, teacher, counselor, 
friend. He consecrated us and by two simple vows we were 
pledged to higher, deeper, spirituality. Pie bestoAved on us 
each the badge of our order, the little silver cross, bearing the 
Latin inscription, ^'MngnaJiimUer Cruccm Sastinc.'''' (Bear 
the cross courageously.) 

Week by week we met for prayer, for advice and for 
working orders, for his was a practical religion. ''Love is 
service." 

If we grew to be an inspiration to him (and wo are 
grateful for the high praise), it was only the reflection of what 
he was to us. 

The life and character of John Gass were an (>s])istle, 
seen and read by all men, telling them that he had been with 
Jesus and had learned Him. 

But sad tidings come to us ! He who was our head 
has been taken from us, and our hearts are filled with sorrow 
for his untimely death. 

The old accustomed places which he frequented are elo- 
quent reminders of him — the lecture room, where were S])ent 
those never-to-be-forgotten Lenten mornings, the chancel and 
pulpit which have echoed with his teachings, the altar where 
was broken the bread and blessed the chalice, seem yet to be 
filled with his presence. 

Not yet can we realize that the eloquent teacher, the ten- 
der, generous friend, the strong, pure soul, has passed away. 

"We have lost him ; he is gone : 
We know him now ; all narrow jealousies 
Are silent : and we see him as he moved, 
How modest, kindly, all accomplished, wise, 

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358 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

With what sublime rej^ression of himself, 
And in what limits, and how tenderly; 
ISTot swaying to this faction or to that, 
Not making his high place the lawless perch 
Of winged ambition, nor a vantage oround 
For pleasure, but thro' all this track of years 
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life." 

To the one dear Daughter upon whom this sorrow falls 
with such crushing weight, we extend our tenderest sympa- 
thies, and for her our prayers ascend. 

"May all love. 
His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow Thee, 
The love of all Thy sons encompass Thee, 
The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee, 
The love of all Thy people comfort Thee, 
Till God's love set Thee at His side again." 

JULIA M. BRISCOE, 
MABLE RITCHIE, 

Committee. 



BIBLE CLASS. 



Mr. R. J. Polk presented the following resolutions by 
the Bible class : 

Inasmuch as it hath seemed well to our Father in 
Heaven to call from earth to paradise our beloved Rector, 
teacher and friend. Rev. John Gass, we, the members of his 
Bible class, desire to add our tribute of love and profound 
respect to his memory and to exjiress our grief at our great 
loss. 

"For nearly three years it was our privilege to meet with 
him weekly for the purpose of studying God's Word, and it 
was then that his deep spirituality, universal love and broad 
Catholicity were best manifested. There we learned from 
him to know God as our lovina- Father, and Jesus Christ as 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 359 

our tender elder Brother, and to realize, through searching 
the Scriptures, God's constant care and guidance of those who 
do His will. The imparting of these spiritual truths to the 
members of his loving and earnest class was, as he said at our 
last meeting, the work he had most loved and enjoyed. At 
times he seemed almost inspired, as if, with St. John, he 
had been allowed a vision of the holy city, jSTew Jerusalem, and 
had caught the reflection of its glory. He loved to dwell 
upon the beauty of holiness and the building of Christ-like 
character. He kept ever before us the fatherhood of God 
and the brotherhood of man, and God's faithfulness in the 
fulfillment of His gracious promises to those wdio keep His 
commandments. 

"We on our part deemed that no greater privilege than 
being led by him 'beside the waters of comfort' could have 
come into our lives, and we desire to express our deep appre- 
ciation of the blessing we enjoyed in being members of his 
class and listening to his words of wisdom. 

"To his loving wife and faithful companion in all his 
works, and to each member of his little flock, to whom he was 
a most tender father, we extend our heartfelt sympathy in 
their bereavement. We grieve with them, and for them, and 
mourn our own personal loss in his transition from earth to 
the mansions of God." 

"He is not dead, but sleepeth. 
"Asleep in Jesus ! O how sweet 
To be for such a slumber meet; 
With holy confidence to sing 
That death has lost its sting." 

MRS. RUFUS J. POLK, 

Chairman. 



BY THE CONGREGATION. 



Mr. C. T. Coft'nmn read the following, signed by a large 
number of the members of the cono'reo'ation : 



360 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

"The undersigned members of Christ Church congrega- 
tion wish to express hereby our deep and sincere sorrow at the 
decease of our dearly beloved j^astor, Ilev. John Gass. The 
intelligence of his death comes with a suddenness that is ap- 
palling; its unexpectedness makes our grief all the greater. 
During his pastorate in this Church he had become endeared 
to us through the tenderest ties^ and it is dithcult to realize 
that we will see him no more. To us his life seemed to be 
an epitome of all the Christian graces, and his soul to be tilled 
with the Master's law of love^ which he so eloquently and 
forcibly taught. We can but pray that the Giver of all good 
will mercifully comfort his stricken family in their great 
bereavement." 

FIRST PEESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

Hon. Jos. W. Martin, of the First Presbyterian Church, 
read the following tribute by the session of that congregation : 

^''Resolved, That we have heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Rev. John Gass, late Rector of Christ Church, 
and we desire to record here our great love and our high re- 
gard for this noble Christian man and minister. We bow 
with you to-day by his newmade grave and shed with you tears 
of profound sympathy and love. May the God of love minis- 
ter consolation to his bereaved and loved wife in her great 
bereavement, and to his sorrowing little orphan children. 
Though recently removed from us, we feel with all good 
people of every name and class that not only your Church has 
lost one of its most valued men, but that his untimely taking 
off is a loss to his country and to humanity. Truly a great 
man hath fallen in Israel." 

S. C. BOSSIXGER, 
Chairman. 

REV. c. c. kra:\[er. 

At the conclusion of the reading of the resolutions. Rev. 
C. C. Kramer delivered an eloquent sermon upon the text, 
"It is ex])edient that T i^o aAvav." — JoJin xvi, 7. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 361 

Followiiiii,' is a synopsis of the address : 

The words were spoken bv the Savior at the Last Sn]iper 
— words freighted with the spiritnal character of Christ. The 
speaker reviewed the inner meaning' of the words in tlieir 
objective relations. It was to secure the incarnation of the 
divine nature that it was expedient for llini to go away. It 
is in this manner we contemphite the death of all men, such 
as the late Brother Gass. He had given sixteen years of his 
life to the militant service of God, but its effects cannot be 
measured within the bounds of years — rather by the flight 
of an unending eternity. God created humanity because he 
needed humanity. He needs our love and He needs our ser- 
vice. There is a continuity of existence not bounded by this 
life. In tender words he referred to the loving ministra- 
tions and the noble service of the deceased Rector, and laid 
upon his tomb a chaplet of eloquence that touched all hearts. 
The kingdom of God is the atmosphere enveloping the divine 
personality. Service is to open the eyes of the world to see 
celestial visions, to open the ears to hear celestial music — this 
was the mission which filled to the full the life of dear Brother 
Gass. Great qualities of mind and intellect do not make up 
the sum of a good life — its complement being great and tender 
heart (lualities. Where there is such a union the convictions 
of man are thoroughly saturated with divine love. Another 
quality much needed in this life is manly strengtli and earn- 
estness of purpose. Dr. Gass was so well rounded in all the 
quantities of tenderness and strength that all men could look 
upon his life and say, '"'He was a good man." 

The sermon was followed l)v the Eucharist, of which a 
large number partook. 



wo:\rAX s auxiliakv. 

The tribute by the Woman's Auxiliai-y was ju-esented by 
Mr. Fay Hempstend as follows: 

Whereafi. The Woman's Auxiliary of Christ Church, 
Little Rock, realize a sorrow that words can poorly express 



362 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

in the loss of their beloved Rector, Rev. John Gass ; even 
though he was not with them they felt that they could rely on 
his valuable advice and guidance, and that his interest in this 
organization which he founded would always be maintained. 
But God, in His wisdom, has ordained otherwise, and called 
him to his reward in the heavenly mansions and left them to 
go on alone. We all know how deeply interested he was in 
this work, therefore let us do honor to his blessed memory by 
working more earnestly and follow closely in the path he laid 
out for us ; therefore be it 

Resolved, That our deepest sympathy be extended to 
our lamented Rector's most estimable wife and children, and 
our own prayer is that God will have them in His tender 
care, and comfort them in His mercy. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be placed upon the 
minutes and a copy sent to the bereaved family. 

MRS. CAROLINE COHEA^, 
MRS. SUSAN PEAY, 

Committee. 



TO THE LATE REY. JOHIvT GASS. 

BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT ADOPTED BY THE MINISTERS ALLIANCE 
OF LITTLE ROCK. 

Tribute to the memory of Rev. John Gass by the Minis- 
ters Alliance, of the city of Little Rock : 

The Ministerial Alliance of this city, at its first meeting 
this fall w^as by the vacant chair again reminded that since 
their last meeting the Rev. John Gass, late Rector of Christ 
Church, had been called home. The shadows of sadness passed 
over the faces of all present as if they had fallen from a real 
cloud when his name was mentioned. Hearts were touched 
with sweetest memories — his most genial disposition, his sym- 
pathetic voice, his benign face, his words of wisdom, and his 
fraternal, Christ-like spirit. Tn the vision of our faith he 
is not dead, but glorified. We know that as his congregation 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 363 

left behind poured out tears of lamentation that his parish- 
ioners who had passed on before waited for him in delight. 

The beautiful words of Bickersteth were fully realized 
by this sainted pastor when he entered Heaven : 

"In amaze 
I asked what meant such gratulations there, 
And one of many answered, 'From thy mouth 
We heard of Jesus' love, and thine the hand 
That led us to His feet.' It was enough; 
For all the Parent and the Pastor woke 
Within me ; all the holy memories 
Of bygone days flowed in a refluent tide 
Over my soul once more. Some I had known 
From rosy dawn of childhood ; 
Some I had shepherded — Yea, many. And 
Some in after years had poured the burden 
Of a wounded spirit into mine. 
And others, dying, heard me read of Him 
Who on the cross for mercy cried to Christ, 
Heard, and themselves believed. All these I knew, 
And quick as liaht their story flashed on me. 
But in that group of filial spirits came many 
I knew not — part of that great store 
Of unsuspected treasure Heaven conceals. 
And they, too, poured on mo beatitudes." 

We express to the bereaved companion of our dear 
brother our deepest sympathy and most fervent love. We 
commend her and the precious children into the hands of our 
most merciful Heavenly Father. He in this great habita- 
tion is a Husband to the widow and a Father of the fatherless. 

The committee was ordered to furnish a copy to be spread 
on the minutes of this alliance, to forward a copy to INfrs. Gass, 
and to give copies to our citv papers. 

S. G. MILLEK. 

Choinnan. 



364 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

A. D. 1 898. The Rev. C C. Kramer, who officiated on 
this occasion, and whose profound and touching discourse was 
but inadequately reported, is Rector of the Church of the 
Epiphany, New Iberia, La., where, for ten years, he had been 
the constant officiate. He had just been granted a three months' 
leave of absence, when he accepted the invitation of Rev. John 
Gass to fill his vacated pulpit for one month. While per- 
forming the duties of the parish Mr. Kramer won the respect 
and regard of the congregation, by his scholarly and helpful 
sermons as well as by his winning personality. On Sunday, 
July 3, 1898, he preached at Christ Church and administered 
the Holy Communion. 

On Sej^tember 7, after a brief visit to Hot Springs, he 
left for Washington, 1). C, via the Lakes, having kindly 
furnished the annalist with an abstract of his life, which he 
pencilled down during his farewell visit. 

REV. C. C. KRxiMER. 

A. D. 1886-1894. The Rev. Charles Coleman Kramer 
was born in Baltimore, Md., January 8, 1858 ; attended the 
Episcopal Institute, Washington, D. C, where he graduated 
in 1876; entered the same year St. Stephen's College, Annan- 
dale, N. Y., and graduated in arts, 1880, taking his class prize 
for natural sciences ; was educated in Divinity at the General 
Theological Seminary, jSTew York City ; was ordained Deacon 
April 10, 1883, by the Rt. Rev. J. X. Galleher in Christ 
Church, New Orleans, La., and Priest by the same Bishop in 
Christ Church, Napoleonville, La. He was a missionary in 
the Diocese of Louisiana from liis ordination as Deacon, until 
his acceptance of the Rectorship of the Church of the 
Epiphany, New Iberia, in 1886, serving for one year as 
Archdeacon. He was Actina' Rector of Trinitv Church, New 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 365 

Orleans, from 1892 to 1895. He returned to the ( 'liurch of 
the Epiphany, Xew Iberia, as Hector in 1894, which position 
he still holds. 

REV. JAMES NOBLE. 

A. D. 1886-1897. Rec. Jamc^ Nohic, a young Deacon 
at Oklahoma, previously from JWnv York, was called to assist 
Rev. John Gass, Rector of Christ Church, and made his first 
appearance in the Chancel at Friday afternoon service, June 
12, 1886. He was admitted to the holy order of Priesthood 
by the Rt. Rev. H. X. Pierce and attending Priests, at Trinity 
Cathedral, May 11, 1897, during the session of the twenty- 
fifth annual Council of the Diocese of Arkansas, Rev. John 
Gass presenting the candidate. On the 15tli of September, 
Rev. Mr. Gass officiated at the nuirriage of Rev. James T^oble 
to Miss Mabel Hedges Simpson at El Reno, O. T. Mr. Xoble 
left the parish October 1, 1897, for Marianna and F'orrest 
City to take charge of the two Episcopal Churclies in the two 
towns. On December 17, 1897, he accepted a call to the 
Episcopal Church at Tyler, Texas. 

Mr. and ^Irs. Xoble have had one son, wh.o died soon 
after birth. 



Mr. J. J. Huntley, Missionary Superintendent and 
licensed Lay Reader of the Christ Church Missions, has 
kindly supplied the data of his mission work, whicli is here 
subjoined : 

ST. PAUL'S. 

A. D. 1890-1894. St. Paul's Sunday School and Mis- 
sion was organized in 1890 by Rev. John E. H. Galbraith, 
under whose ministry it prospered for some time. After 



366 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

his ministry ended it began to decline, so that in January, 
1S04, there were but six attendants. At the urgent request 
of Rev. AVallace Carnahan Mr. J. Huntley, as Lay ]\Iission- 
ary Superintendent, took charge of it. The attendance began 
to increase, and continued to do so until eighty members were 
enrolled. Much of its success was due to the faithful attend- 
ance for a year or more of Miss Bessie Cantrell, Avhose ability 
as organist and teacher was so willingly given. Monthly 
entertainments of a Churchly character were given in this, as 
in all the other missions. The Rev. John Gass, as Rector of 
Christ Church, and its missions, by his loving oversight, did 
much to help this, as well as the other missions. 

ST. JOHN'S MISSIOK 

A. D. 1892-1894. St. John's Mission was organized 
in the summer of 1892, as a Union Sunday School. In the 
spring of 1894 the superintendent, teachers, and scholars 
requested the Rev. Wallace Carnahan to receive in his charge 
as Rector of Christ Church, the mission, which was duly so 
received. The roll of membershij) was at this time seventy. 
Twelve baptisms and two confirmations was only a small part 
of the good done in this mission. 

ST. LUKE'S. 

A. D. 1894. St. Luke's was organized in North Little 
Rock in June, 1894, in a private parlor, Avith twenty scholars 
and four teachers. The attendance soon averaged thirty 
scholars, and the communicants twenty. In this mission 
there have been a large number of baptisms and six confirma- 
tions. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 367 

ST. BAKNABAS'S— BAIUXG CEOSS. 

A. D. 1894. St. Bariiabas's Mission was organized in a 
private house on the 30th of December, 1894, with six 
scholars and two teachers. The attendance continued to 

increase until there was an average attendance of thirty 
scholars. After two years' successful operation, and during 
the ministry of Rev. James jSToble, Assistant ]\linist(>r of Rev. 
John Gass, of Christ C^hurch, the Sunday School was closed 
for nearly two years. In May, 1898, it was reopened with 
the ultimate intention of making it a Diocesan Mission. The 
Bishop officiated the fifth Sunday after Easter and baptized 
three children. The Bishop again officiated, baptizing five 
children of different ages, and confirming two adults. St. 
Barnabas's has now twenty-three baptized children and eleven 
communicants. 

ST. PAUL'S. 

A. D. 1896. St. Paul's Mission — house and lot on 
Eleventh and Pulaski streets — which had been the investment 
of the Ladies' Aid Society ($1,100), was sold for half that 
amount by the Vestry of Christ Church, in whom the title 
of the property was vested, and in December, 1896, a lot was 
bought for St. Paul's Parish by the Rev. James ^s^oble, As- 
sistant Minister of Christ Church, situated on Fifth and 
Victory streets, which location was then adjudged to be more 
favorable for the growth of a congregation. A neat brick 
chapel now stands on that corner, which was formerly occu- 
pied by a saloon, and several devout and active members of 
the Church have collected together the Sunday School, which 
had been scattered after the sale of the original mission 
chapel. The present Rector holds service there on Sunday 
afternoons. 



368 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

In 1896 Mr. Gass assumed the editorial charge of The 
Arkansas Missionary , published quarterly in the montlis of 
February, May, August, and November, in behalf of the 
Diocese, with the subjoined list of the Clergy of the Diocese : 

LIST OF THE CLEKGY OF THE DIOCESE. 

BISHOP. 

Et. Kev. Henry Xiles Pierce, D. D., LL. D Little Rock. 

PRIESTS. 

Eev. W. T. Allen Fort Smith. 

Eev. C. E. Cabaniss Pine Bluff. 

Eev. D. I. Hobbs Little Eock. 

Eev. G. W. Flowers Van Buren. 

Eev. John Gass Little Eock. 

Eev. E. S. James, D. D Eureka Springs. 

Eev. J. W. Keeble Batesville. 

Eev. C. H. Lockwood Helena. 

Eev. W. J. Miller Hot Springs. 

Eev. A. W. Pierce Hope. 

Eev. D. S. C. M. Potter, D. D Morrilton. 

Eev. D. B. Eamsay Camden. 

Eev. D. L. Trimble Pine Bluff. 

Eev. J. J. Vaulx Fayetteville. 

Eev. E. J. Williams Forrest City. 

Eev. I. P. Daniels Little Eock. 

This had been edited for the two years previous by Eev. 
John Davis, whose resignation as Dean of Trinity Cathedral 
took effect in September, 1895, and who, not long after, went 
to Tokio, Japan, to take a professorship in the Theological 
Seminarv there. 



A powerful factor in the hands of the Clergy of Christ 
Church has been and continues to be the Chapter of ''The 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 369 

Daughters of the King," an order which originated with the 
Episcopal Church. The Christ Church Chapter is here 
briefly described in its origin and progress by Miss Emma 
Kramer, one of the members, at the request of the annalist: 

A. D. 1894. Rev. Wallace Carnahan, in 1S94, asked 
the young ladies aud young married ladies to meet and form 
a Chapter of the Daughters of the King. At the first meet- 
ing in January there were present Carrie and Lina Carnahan, 
Nonnie and Queen Lawson, ]\Iisses Georgie Woodruff, Mary 
Hennigan, Zoe Scull, Susie Martin (Mrs. Mayfiehl, of Ala- 
bama), Mrs. Sample, Mrs. Pope, Emma Kramer. 

Mrs. Pope was our first directress. She then went to 
Alabama, after serving two months, and Miss Churchill took 
her place. Misses Maggie Dennison, May Wright (]\[rs. 
French Hoge, of Kentucky), C^arolyn Peay, Kosa Vickers 
(Mrs. John McClintock, of Kentucky), Hattie Bell, Leila 
Field, Jennie Clements, Juliette Churchill (Mrs. R. L. Good- 
rich), Annie Belding (the only member we have lost by 
death), Mary O'Connell, Rosa Miller. We were on proba- 
tion until October, when Mr. Gass came here. We then were 
initiated and formed the Advent Chapter. Some who were 
at the first few meetings withdrew. Mrs. Gass was elected 
directress and it was through her influence the girls began 
taking interest in the work. Mrs. Goodrich, Misses Peay, 
Miller, Bell, Woodruff, and Kramer are the only original 
members that now belong to the order, though others have 
joined, and we have forty members now who are doing good 
work. The work, or sewing committee, alone made seventy- 
four (7-1) dollars during Lent, and the two months pre- 
ceding. 

A. D. 1898. At a meeting of the Vestry of Christ 
Cluireh on the evenino- of June 7, after the rc^signatioji of the 



370 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Eev. John Gass had been tendered and accepted and he had 
departed for Atlanta, Ga., it was decided to call the Rev. Geo. 
Gordon Smeade, Rector of Trinity Clnirch, Pine Bluff, Ark., 
to till the vacancy. On the 29th of June following, the Rev. 
Mr. Smeade signified his acceptance of the office of Rector of 
Christ Church, to assume the charge on 1st of October. 

Professor W. W. Lathurn, of l^ew York City, had been 
secured several weeks previously as organist. 

On September 29, 1898, Rev. Mr. Smeade arrived in 
Little Rock and became the spiritual head of Christ Church 
Parish. 

REV. GEORGE GORDON SMEADE. 

A. D. 1887-1899. Rev. George Gordon Smeade gradu- 
ated with degree M. A. at Roanoke College, Salem; Va., 
entered the Theological Seminary of Virginia, completed 
the three years' course, was ordained to the Diaconate 
June 24, 1887, by Bishop F. M. Whittle, of Virginia, 
and to the Priesthood, June 29, 1888, by Bishop A. M. Ran- 
dolph, of Southern Virginia, then Assistant Bishop of Vir- 
ginia. He was sent to Pulaski City, Va., as a Deacon, and 
remained there until he accepted a call to Trinity Church, 
Pine Bluff, Ark., having declined several previous calls. He 
was Rector of that Church nearly two years, which he re- 
organized- — it having long been dismembered and without a 
Rector — repaired and beautified the Church building, and 
hirgely increased the congregation, which reluctantly resigned 
him on his acceptance of the call to Christ Church, Little 
Rock. Mr. Smeade is a young man and unmarried and 
might well hesitate to assume control where such an illustrious 
line of leaders had preceded him, but he was well equipped 
for the arena, and, restinc on the arm of the Almio;htv he 




REV. GEORGE GORDON SMEADE. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 371 

entered upon his work with a divine courage, which found 
him at the end of a year, victorious and undismayed. Suc- 
ceeding to a well organized and flourishing parish, with one 
incumbrance and one drawback, he set himself to remove that 
incumbrance — the remainder of the Church debt — and to 
restore peace, which had lately been disturbed in Episcopal 
waters. By way of numerical proof, showing the result of 
liis labor in the first and second years of his Rectorship, the 
number of candidates presented by him to Bishop H. N. 
Pierce for confirmation on Palm Sunday, 1899, was nine, 
and those presented on the First Sunday after Easter to 
Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown numbered forty-four — the 
largest class that has ever been presented for confirmation in 
Christ Church. The financial ability of the Rector has also 
been fully demonstrated by his plan of canceling the Church 
debt. The Easter collection for this object was $2,529.70, 
of which the Ladies' Aid Society of the Church contributed 
$743.58. With pledges for $700, which Mr. Smeade still 
holds, augmented by $1,000 from the Ladies' Aid Society, 
which will fall due from the Building and Loan Association 
next Easter, the incumbrance will be removed and the Church 
be consecrated. The Vestry gave a vote of thanks to their 
indefatigable Rector, in which the congregation heartily con- 
curred. As a preacher, Mr. Smeade is logical, profound and 
persuasive and holds full congregations. His sermons have 
been blessed to his parishioners. Socially he is highly 
esteemed for his modest integrity. 

At the request of the annalist, Mr. Smeade procured from 
a cousin the appended lineage, which is reproduced from the 
letter of Captain W. Gordon McCabe, one of the most bril- 
liant and accomplished scholars in the country, and is now 
])rincipal of the University School, Richmond, Va. 



372 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHUnCH PARISH. 

LliS^EAGE. 

A. D. 1 781 . Rev. George Gordon Smeade, who was born 
at Old Point Comfort, Va., ''is the son of Lieutenant Abner 
Smeade, United States Army, who resigned, entered the Con- 
federate army and rose to be colonel and inspector-general 
on ^Stonewall' Jackson's staff, and Amanda Wentworth Gor- 
don, his wife. She was the daughter of Alexander George 
Gordon, Commodore, United States Navy, and granddaughter 
of George Taylor, who was one of the Wardens of (Christ 
Church, Alexandria, Va., during George Washington's attend- 
ance at that Churchy and was a member of the standing com- 
mittee of the Episcopal Church of Virginia. Said Alexan- 
der George Gordon, Commodore United States Xavy, was the 
son of George Alexander Gordon, of Alexandria, Va., and 
Mary Morris, his wife. Mary Morris, born in Dutchess 
County, J^ew York, was the daughter of John Morris, brother 
of Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution. 
Said George Alexander Gordon was the son of Lewis Gordon, 
of Easton, Penn., and his wife, Mary Jenkins, of Philadel- 
phia, lirother of Elizabeth Gordon, who married James Tay- 
lor, son of George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. Lewis Gordon, your (Rev. G. G. Smeade's) great 
great-grandfather, was a most accomplished and cultured 
man. lie was a lawyer of eminence in Xorthampton 
County, Penn., and of direct descent from the Gordons, of 
Kenmuir, Kirkcudbright, Scotland — 

*''Kenmuir's up and awa' Willie !" 



*Williain of GordoTi, Sixth Visfoiint of Kenmiire, is the hero of the Jmcohite 
song referred to. In a letter to his dauerhter Sophia, Mrs. John Gibson Loekhart, 
dated London, April 3, 182n, Walter Soott writes: 

"We had a very merrv day yesterday at Lord Melville's where we found Lord 
Huntley (the late Duke of Gordon) and other friends, and had a Immper to the new 
Baronet who.se name was <jazetted that eveainar (Sir Walter himself). Lady Hunt- 
ley plays Scotch tunes like .■> Hitrhland anarel. She ran a set of variations on 'Ken- 
mure's on and awa'!' which I told her were epoui?h to raise a whole Country side. I 
never in mv life heard such fire thrown into that sort of music." See Loekhart 's 
Life of Sir Walter -Scott. Bart, Vol. VI, page 20. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 373 

"Your Taylor relatives were people of character and hig'li 
position. Through them jou are closely related to Mrs. 
General Fitzhugh Lee and Governor Holiday, of Virginia ; 
you are the great nephew of Rear Admiral Taylor ; also great 
nephew of Colonel Frank Taylor, United States army, of 
Mexican War fame, who married the daughter of Chief Jus- 
tice Taney ; and you are connected with the Daingerfield's, 
Fowle's, and other distinguished folk." 

On his father's side Mr. Smeade is related to Justice 
Lamar and the famous Madame Octavia Walton Le Vert. 



The choir of Easter, 1800, with Professor Lanthurn, 
organist, was composed of the following members : 

Boys — Oscar Schadd, C^lem Scliaer, Jack ^Mitchell, 
Frank Mitchell, Sam Cochran, Hal Cochran, John Foulkes, 
Percy Skirving, Melchoir Eberts, Robt. Bogardt, Willie 
Feeders, Gordon Blackwood. 

Sopranos — Miss Heath, JMrs. Benj. Llarnwell, ^liss 
Edna Bragg, Miss Ernest Field, ]\Iiss Hudspeth, Mrs. McGee, 
Miss Fannie Bell, Miss Ilattie Bell, Miss Xonnie Lawson, 
Miss Rena Smith. 

Altos — Miss Nannie Field, ^[iss Imogene Brack, ]\Iiss 
I)e Xeler. 

Tenors — Mr. Tate Robertson, Mr. Chas. P. Harnwell. 

Bassos— Mr. Talbot Field, Mr. Jesse Dill, Mr. Terry 
Field, Mr. Chas. A. ]\[agee, :\Ir. Geo. Lescher, Mr. Chas. 
Lawson. 

PAROCHIAL REPORT FOR THE COIS^CILIAR YEAR 
1 809-1000, TWEXTY-EIGHTLI AXXUAL 
COUXCIL. 

CHRIST CIirRClI. LITTLE HOCK. PULASKI COUXTY. 

The Rev. G. Gordon Smeade, ^F. A., Rector; residence, 
,^)00 Scott street: the Rev. James Dickinson Simmons, As- 

25 



374 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

sistant; Major Parliam, Lay Reader; Dr. Win. A. Cantrell 
and John \V. Goodwin, Wardens; Frank M. Jelierson, Clerk; 
Gordon ]S'. Peay, Treasurer. 

jS^umber of registered Parishioners, 1,000. jS^ umber of 
families, 350, Baptisms, infants, 20; adults, 11; total 31. 
Confirmations, 44. Marriages, 14. Burials, IS. ISTumber of 
confirmed persons, 650. Communicants — Admitted, 44; 
received, 10 ; died, 3 ; removed, 2 ; present number, 538. Sun- 
day School — Teachers and officers, 46; jjupils, 318; total, 
364. Public Services — On Sunday, 100; on other days, 100; 
Holy Communions, 50. Sittings in Church, free and rented, 
650. 

Services are sui3ported by pew rents, by w^eekly envelope 
system and by voluntary contributions. 

Offerings. Parochial — Communion alms, $238.47 ; 
current expenses, $4,825.25; payment of debts, $3,200; 
Ladies' Aid Society, $968.68; Daughters of the King, 
$497.84; St. Cecilia's Guild, $323; Chancel Guild, $255; 
Christ Church Sunday School, $260.96; St. Paul's Chapel 
Sunday School, $378.60 ; total, $10,947.70. Diocesan — Dio- 
cesan assessment, $115 ; Diocesan Missions, $210.25 ; Bishop's 
salary, $113 ; total, $11,385.95. Missions— General, $82.67 ; 
Foreign, $25; Domestic, $25; University of the South, 
$30.11 ; total, $162.78. Total for all objects, $11,548.73. 

Value of all Parish land (exclusive of buildings), $14,- 
500; value of Church building, $51,500; value of Rectory, 
$6,000; other Parish property, $1,000; total value of all 
Parish property, $73,000. Total indebtedness of the Parish, 
$1,200. 

This has been the most successful year in the history of 
Christ Church. Every department of the Church is alive 
with activity. 

The Assistant Rector (Rev. Mr. Simmons) will enter 
u]ion his duties this week. 

The Easter oflFerino- amounted to $2,554.70. After 
the pledges are collected, including $1,000 in the Buildinii' 
and Loan Association, the indebtedness on the Church will 
onlv bo $200. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 375 

I cannot close this report without s})eaking of the won- 
derful work being done by Mr. Fay Hempstead at St. Paul's 
Chapel, a Mission of this Church. In a very short while 1 
believe the work will be self-supporting. 

KEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE OX STATE OF 
THE CHUKCH. 

The Committee on State of the Church beg leave to re- 
port, and they are highly gratitied and greatly encouraged 
by the improved condition in which they find the Church in 
Arkansas, and the signal progress made by the Diocese within 
the brief period of a few short months; that they have to 
record the grandest year in the history of the Church in this 
State. It is truly remarkable. The labors of the Bishop 
in the field, and outside of it, for its advantage, have both 
been untiring and eminently fruitful. The remarkable fund 
thus accunndatcd in aid of missionary work in the Diocese is 
far beyond all precedent. The Church in Arkansas has been 
placed in full touch wath the American Church, thus auguring 
the brightest prospects for future years of co-operation and 
advancement. 

It may well be believed that this beginning, stimulating 
as it is, is but the herald of a still more glorious day. That 
so much should be accomplished within so short a period by 
our new Bishop should fill our hearts with thanksgiving and 
gratitude to the bountiful Giver of all good. The blessed 
consequences are plainly visible in every quarter of the 
Diocese. The force of working clergy has increased within 
less than one year almost one hundred per ccmt, a marvelous 
augmentation of power for future good. Xew rectories, new 
chapels and Churches seem to be the order of the day. On 
every side there is life, energy and rapid develo|)mont. 
Parishes for long years stagnant have ex])orienced a haj^py 
aAvakening. Where before there was division and w(\ikness, 
in some instances to the ))oint of ])aralysis, now there is har- 
mony and strength. Funds are freely contributed even by 
isolated Churclimen and Churchwomcn Jouff denied the dear 



376 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

pi'ivilege of the services of tlie Church. The Church is being 
planted in new places. Large confirmation classes are pre- 
sented to the Bishoj). 

All this, under God, is mainly the result of the diligent 
and tireless labors of the Bishop, and of the Archdeacons pro- 
vided, appointed and inspired bv him. He and thej have 
been unremitting in their journey ings to and fro into every 
corner of the Diocese, visiting and preaching and laboring, 
and especially appealing for assistance to help on the Holy 
Cause of Christ and the Church. 

Truly, this is a wonderful record. Heartily may we 
exclaim, What has God wrought '( Hopefully now may we 
move on in the good work, putting behind us the dead past 
and gazing steadfastly into the brightness of the coming years, 
wherein, with the steady and faithful exertion of the same 
forces and influences, we may reasonably hope, with the bene- 
diction of the Father, to enjoy a constantly increasing growth 
and expansion, until within a very few years, the Church in 
America will have cause to point witli ]iride to the great work 
done in Arkansas. 

G. GORDOIS^ SMEADE, 

For the Committee. 

TPIE AVAEDEXS AXD VESTRYMEJvT OF CHRIST 

CHURCH. 

A. D. 1 839. John H. Crease, Senior Warden ; Luke E. 
Barber, Junior Warden; Lambert Reardon, Charles Rapley, 
John Hutt, J. P. ]^orman, John Adamson, L. J. Reardon, 
F. W. Trapnall, D. Butler, John Wassell, and William 
Prather. 

A. D. 1 841 . John Wassell, Senior Warden ; Abner S. 
Washljurn, Junior Warden. 'No record of the Vestrymen 
has been obtained. 

A. D. 1849. Daniel Ringo, Senior Warden; John 
Wasscl], Junior Warden; William B. Wait, Treasurer. No 
further record of Vestrvmcn obtained. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 377 

A. D. 1858. Luke E. Barber, Senior Wai-Jen ; John II. 
Crease, Junior Warden ; Daniel Tlingo, Wni. B. Wait, Thos. 
Churchill, S. H. Hempstead, John Wassell, C. F. 31. Xoland, 
Win. A. Cantrell, H. jST. Case, Robert Clements. 

A. D. 1867. Luke E. Barber, Senior Warden; .John 
Wassell, Junior Warden; Wm. B. Wait, S. L. Grithtli, Wm. 

A. Cantrell, U. M. Rose, Ben C. Trapnall, Gwynne Bar- 
ber, Daniel Ringo, T. J. Churchill, and Gordon X, Peay, Sr, 

A. D. 1885. Luke E. Barber, Senior Warden; \l. IL 
Parliam, Junior Warden; Wm. B. Wait, W. W. Smith, J. H. 
Haney, Robert J. Matthews, William G. Whipple, l^ogan PI. 
Roots, Geo. H. Van Etten, Samuel L. Griffith, P. K. Roots. 

A. D. 1886. R. II. Parham, Senior Warden; S. L. 
Griffith, Junior Warden ; W. B. Wait, J. H. Ilanev, Robert J. 
Matthews, William G. Whipple, Logan H. Roots, Geo. IL 
Van Etten, P. K. Roots, C\ H Dolbeer, F. D. Clark. 

A. D. 1 887. R. H. Parham, Senior Warden ; W. W. 
Smith, Junior Warden ; John D. Adams, Dr. W. A. Cantrell, 
R. L. Goodrich, Dr. L. R. Stark, Rufus J. Polk, G. S. Brack, 
J. H. Haney, C. H. Dolheer, F. D. CMavk. 

L D. 1888. R. H. Parham, Senior Warden; W. W. 
Smith, Junior Warden; John D. Adams, Dr. W. A. (^mtrell, 
R. L. Goodrich, Dr. L. R. Stark, R. J. Polk, G. S. Brack, J. 
H. Haney, John W. Goodwin, F. D. Clark. 

A. D. 1889. R. II. Parham. Senior Warden ; Dr. W. A. 
Cantrell, Junior Warden ; John D. Adams, John W. Goodwin, 
R. L. Goodrich, L. R. Stark, R. J. Polk, J. II. Ilanev, G. S. 
Brack, F. D. Clark, S. B. Adams. 

A. D. 1890. John I). Adams, Senior Warden; Wm. A. 
Cantrell, Junior Warden; R. II. Parham, G. S. Brack, L. R. 
Stark, Ralph L. Goodrich, J. IL Ilanev, Rufus J. Polk, Sam 

B. Adams, John W. Goodwin, T. C. Powell. 

A. D. 1891. Same Vestrv re-elected. 



378 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

A. D. 1 892. John D. Adams, Senior Warden ; W. A. 
Cantrell, Junior Warden ; K. H. Parham, J. H. Hanev, G. S. 
Brack, K. L. Goodrich, L. R. Stark, J. W. Goodwin, S. B. 
Adams, T. C. Powell, W. F. Wright. 

A. D. 1893. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden; John W. 
Goodwin, Junior Warden; S. B. xVdams, W. F. Wright, T. C. 
Powell, W. H. Ragiand, H. K. Cochran, J. M. Bracej, G. N. 
Peaj, J. A. Van Etten, H. F. H. Eberts. 

A. D. 1894. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden; John W. 
Goodwin, Junior Warden; G. S. Brack, S. B. Adams, J. M. 
Bracey, H. K. Cochran, W. H. Ragiand, W. F. Wright, A. A. 
Rutland, G. IvT. Peay, J. A. Van Etten. 

A. D. 1 895. Same Vestry re-elected. 

A. D. 1 896. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden ; John W. 
Goodwin, Junior Warden; H. K. Cochran, Sam B. Adams, 
W. F. Wright, A. A. Rutland, W. 11. Ragiand, J. H. Haney, 
J. M. Bracey, Gordon X. Peay, J. A. Van Etten. 

A. D. 1897. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden; John W. 
Goodwin, Junior Warden ; H. K. Cochran, S. B. Adams, 
J. M. Bracey, G. S. Brack, A. A. Rutland, Gordon N. Peay, 
J. A. Van Etten, C. T. Coffman, F. M. Jefferson. 

A. D. 1 898. Same Vestry re-elected. 

A. D. 1 899. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden ; John W. 
Goodwin, Junior Warden ; G. S. Brack, H. K. Cochran, J. M. 
Bracey, A. A. Rutland, G. X. Peay, C. T. Coffman, J. A. 
Van JEtten, F. M. Jefferson, Robert E. Wait. 

A. D. 1 900. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden ; John W. 
Goodwin, Junior Warden ; G. S. Brack, H. K. Cochran, F. M. 
Jefferson, G. K. Peav, S. R. Cockrill, T. H. Bunch, G. H. 
Fee, R. W. Polk, H. C. Rather. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 379 



TRExiSUREES OE C^HRIST CHURCH. 

John H. Crease, Lambert Reardon, William B. Wait, 
Ambrose H. Sevier, J. T. Trezevant, A. J. Slaughter, W. B. 
Cotton, R. H. Parham, John H. Haney, Albert O'Neal, 
Albert Wassell, John D. Adams, Samuel B. Adams, John W. 
Goodwin, W. E. Wright, H. K. Cochran, Erancis M. Jeffer- 
son, Gordon N. Peaj. 

PRESIDENTS OE THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY. 

(1) Mrs. Jane Newton Crease, (2) Mrs. Sim Bostick, 
(3) Mrs. Sue Crease Peav, (-t) Mrs. Charles Scott, (5) Mrs. 
H. N. Pierce, (6) Mrs. Logan H. Roots, (7) Mrs. Catherine 
B. Skipwith, (8) Mrs. James Lawson, (0) Mrs. George W. 
Denison, (10) Mrs. George Sappington, (11) Mrs. Sue 
Crease Peay (second term), (12) Mrs. Rachel Carroll, (13) 
Mrs. T. J. Darragh, (14) Mrs. James Lawson, from 1896 to 
1900, continuously. 

VICE PRESIDENTS. 

Mrs. A. L. Breysacher, Mrs. Frances Johnson, Mrs. 
Julia B. Bond, Mrs. Sue Crease Peay. 

TREASURERS. 

Miss Ada Beall Cochrane (Mrs. T. B. Lee), Mrs. J. H. 
Haney, Mrs. G. S. Brack, Mrs. M. S. Horrocks. 

SECRETARIES OF THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY. 

Miss A. S. Crease, ]Miss Georgie Woodruff, Mrs. A. L. 
Breysacher, Mrs. H. G. Hollenberg, Mrs. Bessie Peay Bohlin- 
ger,'Mrs. W. A. Cantrell. Mrs. (George Denison, Mrs. J. M. 
bill, Mrs. R. B. Gross, ]\rrs. A. A. Rutland. 



380 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

THE MISSIOXARY SOCIETY. 

This society, being understood to embrace all baptized 
members of the congregation, has no recognized head, except 
the Rector. Tlie ''Ladies' Aid Society'' usually supjilied the 
committees to work under Rev. Wallace Carnahan's direction. 
Some noble work was done in sending missionary boxes to 
clergymen in remote districts and donations in currency to 
feeble parishes within the Diocese. 

Later this association, under the Rev. John Gass, took 
the title of "The Christ Church Branch of the Woman's 
Auxiliary to the Board of Missions in the Diocese of Arkan- 
sas." The ^'Woman's Auxiliary" was organized by Mrs. 
Twing, honorary secretary, at the instance of the general sec- 
retaries of the board, the Bishops of the Church, and its own 
general secretaries of the board's appointment, in Xew York, 
January, 1872. The present secretary. Miss Julia C. 
Emery, entered upon her duties October 1, ISTfi, and has 
carried the work steadily on since that time, assisted by her 
sister, Miss M. T. Emery. 

A. D. 1 886. The Christ Church Branch of the Woman's 
Auxiliary in the Diocese of Arkansas was organized May 17, 
1886, with the following officers. Rev. John Gass, President; 
Mrs. Catherine B. Skipwith, Yice President; Mrs. G. H. 
Yan Etten, Second Yice President ; Mrs. C. S. Cohen, Third 
Yice President ; Mrs. Rufus J. Polk, Fourth Yice President ; 
Mrs. W. H. Ragland, Treasurer; Mrs. John Gass, Record- 
ing Secretary; Miss ]\ratilda Jordan, Corresponding 
Secretary. 

In 1898-00 the officers were Mrs. C. S. Cohen, Yice 
President ; Mrs. Sue Crease Peay, Second Yice President ; 
j\rrs. Wm. A. Cantrell, Recording Secretary ; Miss Matilda 
Jordan, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Eds2,ar Ilolman, 
Treasurer. 

In 1800-1000 the officers were Rev. Geo. Gordon 
Smeade, President; ]\lrs. G. II. Yan Etten, Yice President; 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 881 

JV'Irs. G. W. Sappini>toii, Second Vice Prositlcnt ; Mrs. (Jray 
Carroll, Secretary; Miss Matilda Jordan, Correspondiui;- Sec- 
retary and Treasurer. 

OFFICERS OF DAUGHTERS OF THE KLXG. 

First Directress, Mrs. Pope; Second Directress, 

Mrs. John Gass ; Third Directress, Mrs. X. Y. Bailey j Fourth 
Directress, Mrs. Andrew Hunter; Fifth Directress, Miss 
Emma Kramer. 

OFFIC^ERS OF ST. CECILIA'S GUILD. 

yOKMED IN 1S!)T 1;K\'. JOJIX GASS, IM-X'TOK. 

A. D. 1897. President, Mrs. Charles Martin (organ- 
izer) ; Vice President, Mrs. Edwin Bentley ; Secretary, Miss 
Minnie Cowpland ; Treasurer, Mrs. LI. K. Cochran ; (Corre- 
sponding- Secretary, ]\Irs. Frederick ]\Iartin. 

A. D. 1898. President, Mrs. Charles ALirtin ; Vice 
President, ]\Irs. Edwin Pentley ; Secretary, Miss Minnie 
(J'owpland ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Xell Dooley ; 
Treasurer, ]\Iiss Imogene Brack. 

A. D. 1899. President, Mrs. Edwin Bentley; Vice 
President, Mrs. Frederick Martin; Secretary, Miss Xell 
Dooley; Corresponding Secretary, ]\Iiss Bertie Ilndspeth; 
Treasurer, Miss Bohbie Jones. 

Advisory Board — Mrs. Gass, ]\rrs. Compton, Mrs. 
Sybert, Mrs.' Miller, Mrs. Bragg, .Mrs. Retan. 

ORGANISTS OF CHRIST (TIURCIL 

Mrs. Wm. II. C. Yeager, Dr. Ben Scull, Ah-. Leonidas 
P. Wheat, ]\Ir. Ives, Dr. J. 'M. Beidelman, :\Irs. Mar- 
garet Kerr, Miss Mary E. Ilarrell, Professor Levy, Professor 
Ellinger, Miss Laura Wiederman, Professor August Hoifman, 
Miss Mary Smith (Mrs. Dewey), ]\riss Lily Wright (Mrs. 
Putnam Dickinson), Miss Ludovica Krause, ^fr. Edward 



382 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Cutts Gould, Miss Margaret Woodruff, Mr, T. 0. Deane, Mrs. 
Madison, Professor Brebegh, Mr. Palin Saxby, Mrs. P. K. 
Hoots, Mrs. W. 0. Denney, Miss Irene Baird (Mrs. Murray), 
Professor P. Jefferson Hall, Professor W. W. Lantliurn. 

SIA^GEKS. 

Mrs. Plelen Scott, Miss Lizzie Shall, Miss Frances Cocke 
(Mrs. Trapnall), Miss Mary Crease (Mrs. Watkins), Miss 
Lavinia Reardon (Mrs. Wait), Miss Helen Reardon (Mrs. 
Scott), Miss Harriet Grafton (Mrs. Fatherly), Miss Blanche 
Scott (Mrs. Sokolski), Miss Eliza Tucker (Mrs. Beebe), Miss 
Mary Ellen Tucker (Mrs. Ives-Strong), Miss Joanna Krause 
(Mrs. Hotze), Miss Arbadoo Gibson (Mrs. Farrelly), Miss 
Maggie Reyburn (Mrs. John Peay), Miss Laura Crease (Mrs. 
Lewis), Miss Lollie Tucker (Mrs. Hardy), Miss Annie Rear- 
don (Mrs. Raleigh), Misses Isadore and Lillian Pike (Mrs. 
Roome), Miss Jennie Whipple, Mrs. Ames-Billings, Mrs. 
Harris-Ryan, Miss Edwards, Miss Emma Scott (Mrs. Law- 
son), Miss Johanna Scott (Mrs. Robards), Miss Lily Wright 
(Mrs. Dickinson), Miss Imogene Wright (Mrs. Sevier), Miss 
Lillian (^antrell (Mrs. Bay), Miss Bessie Pierce (Mrs. 
Lyman), Miss May Cantrell (Mrs. Axtell), Mrs. Katzenstein, 
Mrs. Hanford, Miss Alice Compton (Mrs. Weaver), Miss 
Williams-Harnwell, Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Cavanaugh, Miss 
Daisy Cantrell (Mrs. Polk), Miss Nellie Clarke (Mrs. 
Ward), Miss Isadore Cantrell (Mrs. Goodwvn), Colonel Wm. 
G. Whipple, Major J. W. Smith, Judge W.' J. Warwick, Mr. 
Wm. Hunter, Mr. Geo. Gibbs, Mr. Victor ISTcwton (in the old 
Church and Chapel), Mr. T. W. Bankes, Lieutenant Post, 
IT. S. A. ; Lieutenant Gregory, U. S. IST. 



A. D. 1 899. ITpon the demise of the aged Bishop Henry 
Xiles Pierce, on September 5, 1.S99, after seventy-nine years 
of earthly pilgrimage, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Wm. Montgomery 

Brown, Bishop-Coadjutor since June 2S, 1898, became Bishop 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 383 

of the Diocese of Arkansas without further ceremony. lie 
liad been at his summer home at Galion, Ohio, and when 
notified of the serious iUness of Bishop Pierce immediately 
set out for Fayetteville, Ark., to attend on him. When there 
was no hoi^e of recovery and tlu^ end was at hand lie hd't Fay- 
etteville for Little Rock and was ready to receive the funeral 
cortege when it arrived here at 7 :50 p. m., on the Cth of Sep- 
tember, and take part in the funeral services before narrated. 
The biography of the latest Bishop will close the series given. 
It will naturally be shorter than those of his predecessors, as 
his career has but begun, but it is the sincere hope of the 
annalist that it will crown all that have gone before with a 
blessed fruition of their joint labors. 

The following summary of Bishop Brown's work is 
quoted from the Journal of the Twenty-eighth Annual Council 
of the Diocese of Arkansas : 

SUMMARY OF MY WORK IX ARKANSAS. 

Places visited, thirty-four; number of visitations, fifty- 
one ; sermons, sixtv-five ; addresses, seventy-five ; lectures, six- 
teen; baptisms, ten; confirmations, 108 ; communions, twenty- 
eight; marriages, one; letters dimissory received, three. 

Of the lOS confirmations mentioned, the candidates from 
Christ Church presented by Rev. George G. Smeade are : 

Little Rock— Christ Church, April 22, 1900: Mr. Yerne 
Ricord Stover, Mr. Rufus E. Brugman, Mr. Jno. C. Peay, 
Mr. W. A. Pickering, Mr. Reyburn R. Peay, Mr. Oscar Addi- 
son Schaad, Mr. James David Crockett, Mr. Ashley Cockrill, 
Mr. Shelby Tuppes Jabine, Mr. F. D. Beaming, Mr. E. II. 
Leaming, Mr. Clarence Shell Gordon, Mr. Robert Whittield 
Xewell, Mr. Robert Dorsey Wooldridge, Mr. Albert Retau, 
Major Claude H. Sayle, Mrs. Grace Anna Dean, .Miss Winnie 
Grace Dean. Mrs. Lida Leo]iard, Mrs. Xettie Williams, Mrs. 
Clara Whavne, Miss Prewitt, :\liss Irene Elizabeth 



384 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Hamilton, Miss Ethel Marigold Sniitli, Miss Bettie G. Ward, 
Miss Gertrude Berbig, Mrs. F. 1). Learning, Mrs. E. H. Learn- 
ing, Mrs, J no. W. Mast, Jr., Miss Serena L. Abbott, Miss 
Abbigale Belle Becker, Mrs. Jennie Mitchell Cockrill, ^Miss 
Jessie Eliza Scott, Mrs. Robert E. Wait, Mrs. Beyburn R. 
Peaj, Mrs. Matilda Merriman, Mrs. Melissa Retan, Miss Zilla 
E. Retan, Miss Carrie May Retan, Miss June Sibeck, Mrs. 
Lucile Llillis Hooper, Miss Maggie Richard Henwood, Miss 
Martha Dickinson Brumnan. 



THE RT. REV. WM. MOA^TGOMERY BROWIs^ D. D. 

A. D. 1855-1898. The lU. Rev. Wm. Montgomery 
Broiot, D. D., second Bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas, was 
born in Wayne C^ounty, Ohio, near Orrville, iSToveniber 6, 
1855. His academic studies were pursued in the High School 
of Cleveland, Ohio, at Seabury Hall, Earibault, Minn., and 
under private tutors. He studied theology at Bexley Hall, 
the Theological Seminary of Kenyon College. Was ordered 
Deacon by Bishop Bedell, June 17, 1883, in Trinity Church, 
Cleveland, and was placed in charge of Grace Mission, Gallon, 
Ohio. Was advanced to the Priesthood by the same Bishop 
on May 22, 1884, in Trinity Church, Toledo, Ohio. He re- 
mained at Gallon, building up that mission, and establishing 
missions in adjacent places to the number of seven, until 1891, 
when he became the General Missionary of the Diocese of 
Ohio, with the title of Archdeacon. In the latter capacity he 
had, under the Bisho]), oversight of all the missionary Avork 
in the Diocese, and was largely instrumental in establishing 
the Church in a great many places and of building twenty-one 
mission cha]iels. At the time of his election to the Episco- 
pate he was also secretary of the Diocesan Missionary Com- 
mittee and of the Diocesan Board of Trustees, and he was one 




RT. REV. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN. D. D. 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 885 

of the special lecturers at the Kenjoii College Theological 
Seminary, Bexley Hall. He was elected Bishop-Coadjutor 
of Arkansas on December 1, 1IS*J7, and was consecrated in 
Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, June 24, IS'JS, by Bishops 
McLaren ((Jhicago), Seymour (Springlield), Whitehead 
(Pittsburg), Vincent (Bishop-Coadjutor of Southern Ohio), 
Leonard (Ohio), Atwill (West Missouri), Hale (Bishop Co- 
Adjutor of Springlield), and White (Indiana). The 
appointed consecrators were the Bishops of (Tiicago, Pitts- 
burg, and Coadjutor of Southern Ohio. The ju-esenters 
were the Bishops of Springhehl and Ohio, and the ])reaclu'r 
the Bishop of West Missouri. The attending Presbyters 
were the Very Rev. D. I. Hol)bs, of Little Rock, and the 
Rev. Professor Davies, of Gambler. Archdeacon Taylor, of 
Springfield, 111., acted as de))uty registrar. J]isho]i Brown 
received the degree of 1). 1). from Kenyon College and from 
the University of the South, 1SU8. He is the author of '^The 
Church for Americans,''' first published in ISOC), and now in 
its tenth edition. 

On April 9, 1885, Rev. Wm. Montgomery Brown nuir- 
ried Miss Ella Bradford, the adojited daughter of ^Irs. ALiry 
Scranton Bradford, of Cleveland, Ohio. His first (charge 
was in Gallon, Ohio, where he still retains his summer home. 
Lie moved to Little Rock with his family in Xovendjer, ISIJS, 
where he has since resided. 

The Right Rev. Wm. Montgomery Brown, I). I)., P>ishoi) 
of Arkansas, has just issued from the ]U'ess of Thomiis Whit- 
taker, New York, the tenth edition of his remarkal)le book, 
"'The Church for Americans." Libertas, writing in tlie 
B'ort Htnifh Times, says that it is remarkabh' not so much for 
its great popularity, which is evidenced by the number of 
editions through which it has run, as for its broad-minded 
spirit, liberality and entire freedom from invective, ridicule 



386 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

or harsh criticism in discussing a subject which ordinarily 
contains more latent heat than any other — that of religion — 
wherein too often our advocates of a peculiar cult — 

'^Prove their doctrine orthodox 
By apostolic blows and knocks." 

The spirit of the work may be determined from the 
following paragraphs of the introduction : 

"It was impossible to cover the ground marked out for 
this book without instituting comparisons between the Episco- 
pal Church and other bodies of Christians. Where we are 
found to differ radically in matters of doctrine and govern- 
ment an uncompromising effort has been made to justify our 
position. But the uniform endeavor has been to speak the 
truth as Episcopalians understand it in a spirit of love and 
fairness, and it is hoped that we have nowhere been so unfor- 
tunate in our expressions as to wound the feelings of any who 
differ from us or to leave the imjDression that we are so nar- 
row and bigoted as not to perceive that the various denomina- 
tions of Churches have done and are doing a great ainount of 
good. We believe that countless millions will be in heaven 
who followed not with us. 

'^But though we are aware of the Christian graces, the 
good works, and the bright heavenly prospects of tens of thous- 
ands of the representatives of the Roman Church and Dissent- 
ing Protestants, yet this glad conviction does not justify us 
in forgetting our prolonged, causeless, hurtful and therefore 
sinful divisions, and the consequent obligation to do what we 
can to restore the visible organic unity of the primitive 
Church. We are indeed all journeying toward the Promised 
Land ; but how much better it would be for us and for the 
Avorld if we were going together in the straight and narrow 
way of God's appointment !" 

Bishop Brown's arguments are based upon the following 
broad tenets : 



THE AJSNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 387 

"(1. ) Christ founded a visible, organized (Jhurcli, and 
has laid upon us the obligation to ally ourselves with it. {2.) 
The way to that Church is not through the gates of Ivonie. 
(3.) Nor by way of Methodism, Presbyterianism, etc., but 
(4) Through the Episcopal Church.''' 

The writer follows the history of the Church in detail 
from the time it was planted in Britain in apostolic times, 
probably by St. Paul himself, through all its struggles with 
papacy, and gives a graphic account of the founding of the 
Church in America. His reviewer closes by commending 
"Church for Americans" to every fair seeker after knowledge, 
as one of the cleverest, wisest and most logical and least dog- 
matic presentations of Episcopal doctrine than can come to 
his hands. It will eradicate from the minds of many of us 
very mistaken impressions and till us Avitli a more wholesome 
respect for tenets, which perhaps we did not before under- 
stand. 



\_Arhmsas Democrat, April 19, 1900.] 
PtEY. BROWX ACTED 

AS A SUBSTITUTE AT ST. MATTllEw's CHUKCII IX NEW YORK. 

The following clipping from a New York paper will 
interest the friends of the Rev. Win. M. Brown in liittle 
Rock : 

"An unusual incident occurred at St. Matthew's Church 
upon the occasion of the recent visit of the Bishop of the 
Diocese. Dr. Krans was so ill that he could not take part 
and present the class. Bishop Brown, of Arkansas, who hap- 
pened to know of Dr. Ivrans's condition, because he made one 
of the Lenten week day addresses, volunteered to take his place 
as parish Priest, and did so, reading the lesson and presenting 
the class. Dr. Gallaudet reading the Collects and Psalter. 



388 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Bishop Potter, as could be seen, tried to treat Bishop Brown 
as another Bishop, oli"ered him the chair, etc. But Bishop 
Brown refused. He was there to be the Parish Priest, and 
he refused to be anything else. Bishop Potter referred to 
the incident eloquently and touchingly, saying that while he 
had confirmed nearly one hundred thousand persons in this 
]3iocese, this was the first instance he had known where the 
class had been presented by one Bishop to be confirmed by 
another. He recalled the story of St. Peter and St. John 
going to Samaria to confirm those converted under the preach- 
ing of St. Philip, the Deacon."' 



LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE AIS^XALS OF 

CHRIST CHURCH PARISH, LITTLE 

ROCK, ARK. 

Bishop Wm. Monts'omerv Brown 5 Copies. 

Dr. Wm. A. Cantrell . .' 5 

Dr. James A. Dibrell 2 

Mr. J. H. Hanev 1 

Mr. G. S. Brack 1 

Rev. P. G. Robert, St. Louis, Mo 1 " 

Mrs. Sterling R. Cockrill, Little Rock 1 

Mrs. John IS^. Jabine 1 " 

Miss Mary E. Harrell, Hot Springs 1 

Rev. Wallace Carnahan, San Antonio, Texas. ... 2 " 

Rev. Geo. Gordon Smeade, Little Rock 2 " 

Mr. Robert E. Wait 1 " 

Air. John S. Adamson 1 " 

Mrs. Lillian Cantrell Bay, St. Louis, IMo 

Mrs. Cara Crease Peyton, Little Rock 

Mrs. Sue Crease Peay, Little Rock 

Miss A. S. Crease, Little Rock 

Mr. J. Huntlev, Little Rock 

^1'r. C. T. Coffmau. Little Rock 

Jh: B. B. Minor, Richmond, Ya 



THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. :?89 

Rev. T. C. Tupper, Savannah, Ga 1 Copies. 

Colonel Wni. G. Whipple, Little Rock 1 

Mrs. C. M. Butler, Little Rock 1 

Mr. Norman B. Morrell, Knoxville, Tenn 2 

Mrs. Gilbert Knapp, Toltec, Ark 2 

Mrs. Daisy Cantrell Polk, Galveston, Texas 2 

Mrs. May'Cantrell Axtell, Richmond, Va 10 

General B. W. Green, Little Rock . ." 1 

Miss Hettie Denison, Little Rock 1 

Mrs. P. K. Roots, Little Rock 1 

Rev. Willard IL Roots, Chelan, Wash 1 

Rev. Geo. F. Degan, Augusta, Maine 1 

Mr. Fay Hempstead, Little Rock 1 

AFr;:. ^^\ A. Compton, Little Rock 1 

Mr. Wm. A. Cantrell, Jr., Fort AVorth, Texas. . 2 

Mrs. Augusta Van Etten 1 

Mrs. John C. Peay 1 

Mrs. E. llpliam Reeve 1 

Judge U. M. Rose 1 

Miss Julia C. Emery, New York 1 

Mrs. Isadore Cantrell Goodwyn, Galveston, Texas 1 

]Mrs. John Levering Matthews, Little Rock 1 

AL's. Mary F. Zimmerman 1 

Mrs. Susan Cantrill Christie, Brooklyn, N. Y. . . 1 

Miss Louie Cantrill Christie, Brooklyn, N. Y". . . . 1 

Gazette Publishing Company 1 

Mr. R. O. Paul, Little Rock 

Mrs. Benj. Harnwell, Little Rock 

Mr. John M. Bracey, Little Rock 

Miss Matilda Jordan 

Captain Sam B. Adams 

Rev. C. C. Kramer, New Iberia, La 

Mrs. F. Wolcott Jackson, Newark, N. J 

Mr. A. F. Adams, Dallas, Texas 

Mrs. A. A. Rutland, Little Rock 

]Mr. W. W. Lanthurn, Little Rock 

Ylrs. W. W. Smith, Clarendon, Ark 

Airs. G. :\r. D. Cantrell, Little Rock 

Rev. Arthur Howard Noll, Somerville, Tenn .... 



390 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 

Eev. Geo. W. Lay, Concord, iST. H 1 Copies. 

Major E. H. Parham, Little Rock 1 " 

Mrs. John Dudlev Adams, Little Eock 1 " 

Mr. S. S. Wasseli 1 

Mrs. Sophronia Peav Golder 1 " 

Mrs. W. Fulton Wright 1 " 

Mrs. Fannie Kendricks 1 " 

Mrs. Francissa E. Hutt 1 " 

Mrs. Mary Causine Clements 1 " 

Mrs. Eliza Scott, Scott's Station 1 " 

Dr. Claiborne Watkins 1 " 

Mrs. O. P. Robinson, Ashvale, Ark 1 " 

Mrs. P. Foulkes, Little Rock 1 " 

Mrs. J. B. Pillow, Helena, Ark . 1 " 

Mrs. Rufus J. Polk, Little Rock 1 " 

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Mrs. A. V. Sappington 1 " 

Miss Frances M. Scott 1 " 

Mr. Herbert Wasseli 1 " 

Mr. John W. Goodwin 1 " 

Mrs. Mary C. Oppenheim, San Francisco, Cal . . 1 " 

Mr. J. G.'' Cantrell, Xashville, Tenn 1 " 

Mr. Wm. S. Mitchell, Little Rock 1 " 

Colonel Geo. W. Caruth, Little Rock 1 " 

Mrs. Logan H. Roots, Little Rock 2 " 

Mrs. Louisa F. Bailev, Little Rock 1 " 

Mrs. John G. Fletcher, Little Rock 5 " 

Mrs. Robert W. Johnson 1 " 

Mrs. Francis Johnson 1 " 

Mr. P. Hotze 2 " 

Mrs. Wm. C. Stout 1 " 

]\[rs. D. G. Fones 1 " 

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